Before and after Dec. 7, 1941, the frequent appearance of big PBY Catalina flying boats skimming the wavetops in Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay would have been an eye-catching sight. A PBY-5A Catalina ...
The restoration of the world's oldest flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, BuNo 2459, is well underway at American Aero Services in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. After several years in the Netherlands, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catalina reborn for Pacific A Florida company plans to turn an iconic World War II seaplane design into a modern aircraft it ...
The Catalina, originating as the 1928 XPY-1 prototype and designated PBY by the U.S. Navy, became the most popular flying boat of WWII with over 3,300 built, evolving into amphibious variants and ...
There was a festive atmosphere at NAS Jacksonville Heritage Park April 6 as hundreds of Sailors, civilians and retirees gathered to dedicate the refurbished PBY-5A Catalina patrol plane (Bureau Number ...
For the past 20 years, divers have unsuccessfully tried to explore and photograph a PBY-5 Catalina seaplane shot down during Japan’s opening salvo of the Pearl Harbor attack. Now, some 74 years after ...
The phone rang. It was my sister-in-law. “We’ve just bought a stamp with a picture of your airplane,” she said. “Yes, the PBY.” I don’t suppose that means much to most folks in 2005. But to the ...
Click to open image viewer. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, tall tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1; outrigger floats from each wingtip, hinged to fold ...
Click to open image viewer. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, tall tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1; outrigger floats from each wingtip, hinged to fold ...