Chuck Ellsworth was born in Newfoundland in 1935 before it became a part of Canada, so he holds both Canadian and British passports. He now lives in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, B.C., and earns his living training pilots and ferrying PBYs all over the world.

Recent jobs have taken him to South Africa, Portugal, France, and England. He flew a PBY war bird restoration from South Africa to England. From there he ferried it to a flight museum in Virginia Beach via Iceland and Greenland. In Portugal he trained five Australian pilots to fly a Catalina owned by the Australian Historical Aircraft Restoration Society of Sydney.

"The reason I fly Catalinas is that it gives me a chance to travel all over the world to work with interesting people doing what I love," he explained. "I'm on the phone and the Internet with people in more than 40 countries. At my age and with more than 25,000 hours, I could retire, but I'm having too much fun."

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Briefing on Chuck Ellsworth:

 ATPL Fixed wing. Multi land and sea
 Commercial helicopter
 Commercial Gyroplane ( USA )

 Total time: 25,000 +

 Learned to fly in 1953 at Central Airways, Toronto Island
 Float rating in 1954 in a PA-16

 First job was Aerial Application, flew seven seasons, both fixed and Rotary wing

 Received my Helicopter license in 1964

 Around ten thousand hours bush flying, most everything with wings
 Around ten thousand hours IFR, Airline, Corporate and charter and heavy waterbombers
 Fifteen years firebombing Captain time on PBY

 Last eight years flying training on PBY international and world wide ferry. Over forty countries

 Airshow demonstration pilot, flying all over Europe with the French Flying Legends

 Have been Chief pilot for several companies including Airline

 Have owned two Aviation Companies. One flight school with six fixed wing single engine and one twin and one helicopter

 Owned a float plane Charter company

 Have flown fixed wing from biplanes to Airbus A320

 Have flown hHelicopters from R22 to S61