Over the next two years she appeared at a number of events and airshows
although these were mainly confined to appearances in Italy and Switzerland. In August 1997 she was sold once again, this time to Weavair, who ferried the aircraft to Lanseria, South Africa, and had the interior rearranged to accommodate fifteen passengers (from a previous arrangement of nine). Here it was used on flights from Johannesburg to Cape Town and up the eastern coast to Plattenburg, the early flying being conducted by Chuck Ellsworth, a Canadian pilot with a vast amount of experience in flying PBY's and DC-3's in northern Canada and Alaska, and is probably the highest-houred PBY pilot still current in the world, to check out three South African pilots, on the aircraft.
However, her stay in South Africa was not to last very long for in the late summer of 1999 it was decided to fly the aircraft back to the US to appear at the airshow at Oskosh in an effort to find a buyer. Ferry pilot for the trip was to be Chuck Ellsworth.
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