About This File
FSX/P3D VI Seaplane Shuttle Mallard N653SS. Textures only for the FSX native Grumman Mallard by LDR Developments, converted from Milton Shupe original. The textures represent N653SS, 1948 Grumman Mallard G-73, Serial J-53, as photographed in the Virgin Islands in 1989 while in service with Virgin Islands Seaplane Shuttle. Unfortunately, much of the VI Seaplane Shuttle fleet (three other turbo-converted Mallards) was destroyed in Hurricane Hugo. J-53 has since been written off and "stored": the last photograph found dates to 2011 and shows a very sad, derelict airplane. By William Bruce Ellis.