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C-GSBN with tiny Sydney Harbour Opera House marking.

Photo: Bob Kobzey © 09 March 2026 - Aird Archives

C-GSBN almost ready, at CYBL - Campbell River, BC.

Photos: Bob Kobzey © 22 October 2025 - Aird Archives

Photo: Bob Kobzey © 18 September 2025 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM waiting at CYBL - Campbell River, British Columbia.

Photo: Dirk Septer © 20 January 2020 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM on the job, at Rose Bay base.

Photo: Michael Greenhill © 09 April 2016 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM at Bankstown, maintenance and new look!

Photo: Graeme D. Mills © 30 November 2015 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM at Rathmines giving rides.

Photos: Michael O'Farrell © 16 November 2013 - Aird Archives

A view inside.

Photo: Alex Penrose © 10 August 2013 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM with Sydney Seaplanes "Caledonia" at Rose Bay base.

Photo: Michael Greenhill © 13 July 2012 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM plying her trade on a blustery Rose Bay.

Photo: Neil Aird © 08 November 2010 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM at Rose Bay when with Southern Cross.

Photos: Neil Aird © 04 May 2005 - Aird Archives

Photo: Lenn Bayliss © May 2005 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM just before repaint.

Photo: Lenn Bayliss © February 2005 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM landing Bankstown.

Photo: Michael O'Farrell © April 2004 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM at Bankstown.

Photo: Unknown photographer © December 2003 - Aird Archives

Photo: Gert Groenenberg© Date unknown - Aird Archives

VH-AAM undergoing makeover at Bankstown.

Photo: David Fogwill © November 2002 - Aird Archives

VH-AAM when with Helijet.

Photo: Unknown photographer © September 1994 - Aird Archives

VH-IMR takes a break at Green Island, Queensland.

Photo: Geoff Goodall © July 1993 - Aird Archives

VH-IMR down south at Bankstown - YSBK, New South Wales.

Photo: Danny Tanner Photography © 18 May 1990 - Aird Archives

VH-IMR in Percheron Livey.

VH-IMR in her blue colours.

VH-IMR at Bankstown

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G-213 • (N37772) • VH-IMR • VH-AAM

C-GSBN

• Regn/Serial unknown. Government of the Republic of Ghana. Delivered 10-Nov-1961.

• G-213 Ghana Air Force. Details unknown.

• (N37772) Resv’d 15-Sep-1976. Canx as n.t.u. On USCAR at 02-Mar-1990 (Officially Canx 08-Nov-2010).

• VH-IMR Imported into Australia. Regd 17-Sep-1976.

• VH-IMR Aqua-Flite, Cairns, QLD. (Aqua Flite ceased trading Mar-1992).

• VH-AAM Percheron Transport. Regd Late 1976.

• VH-AAM Air Ag Services, (Aerial Agriculture) Bankstown, NSW. Regd 13-Apr-1992.

• VH-AAM Australian Barrier Reef Airlines, Cairns, QLD. Australia. Regd Nov-1992.

• VH-AAM Heli-Aust Pty., Ltd., dba. Helijet, Bankstown, NSW. Regd 16-Jun-1998.

• VH-AAM Air Whitsunday Pty., Ltd., Hamilton Island, NSW. Dates unknown.

• VH-AAM Seaplane Safries - Aviant Pty., Ltd., Bellevue Hill, NSW. Dates unknown.

• VH-AAM Seaplane Assets Pty., Ltd., Rose Bay, NSW. T/a Southern Cross Seaplanes, Pty, Ltd., Regd 02-Aug-2006 under CASP 47.

Website: http://www.seaplanes.com.au

Note: Named “Caledonia” after one of the Shorts “C” class flying boats of Imperial Airways that flew passenger services between the UK and Australia from 1936 until the outbreak of WWII.

Flipped over in windstorm while moored - Rose Bay, NSW - 12-Aug-2019. Salvaged.

• Exported to Canada.

• Imported to Canada 03-Jan-2020. Not yet registered. Noted at CYBL - Campbell River on 20-Jan-2020.

• C-GSBN Sealand Aviation Ltd., Campbell River, BC. Regd 30-Nov-2023. Note: Will be powered by the RED 03 12 cylinder piston 500HP engine - Test Bed aircraft due in 2025. Second Test Bed aircraft.

• Red engine conversion #2 •