With 5,710 hours total time since new, this 1959 Grumman HU-16 Albatross is no youngster. Its age – 62 years old – also point to the fact that this plane is an old-timer.

The Grumman HU-16 Albatross was a large amphibious flying boat produced between 1949 and 1961 and was flown by the US Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard and other military forces around the world.

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After a long and illustrious career with the USAF, US Navy and Coast Guard in addition to the air arms of fifteen other nations, the Grumman HU-16 Albatross is about to enter a new phase of Its ...

The Albatross was designed to meet a U.S. Navy requirement for an amphibious utility aircraft that could also operate from snow and ice with skis. In 1955, Grumman developed an improved variant (16B) ...

SYLMAR, Calif., Apr 12, 2012 -- PPG Industries’ aerospace coatings group donated primer and topcoats for repainting a reconstructed Grumman HU-16 Albatross search-and-rescue amphibian aircraft ...

The seaplane is a Grumman HU-16 Albatross that was manufactured in 1955. Before Buffett purchased and restored it in 1995, the U.S. Navy used the plane for search and rescue. Buffett’s adventures in ...

It was manufactured from 1946-51. Only 59 were built before the plane morphed into the Grumman HU-16 Albatross.