The Royal International Air Tattoo will highlight the vital role aviation plays in maritime patrol, search and rescue, ...

The Landseaire was the ultimate adventure machine, based on the WWII-era PBY Catalina flying boat. It featured beds, bathrooms, kitchens, and deployable boats, making it a long-range home in the sky.

Above: The NGAA ‘Catalina II’ will be ‘a common platform for many uncommon missions’ Florida-based Catalina Aircraft, which holds type certificates for the PBY-5A Catalina with US and Canadian civil ...

Known as the ‘ Double Sunrise ‘ flights, these flights lasted up to 33 hours in the air, long enough for passengers to observe two sunrises as they cruised toward their final destination. AeroTime ...

Almost 2,700 PBY Catalinas were produced by Consolidated, not including some 600 built under license in Canada. The seaplane’s predicted military obsolescence, deferred by wartime usefulness ...

I read about the Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter plane … not the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat. Combatants, not auxiliaries.

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 46602 during its time as a fire tanker for Flying Fireman, Ltd. of Sydney, British Columbia at Smithers Airport in August 1971 under the civil registration CF-FFZ.

The route used Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, followed later by Liberator planes, the latter of which were the first to sport Qantas' kangaroo logo.

Despite damage to his life vest, Thompson found that a tide was slowly carrying him seaward, where a Consolidated PBY-5a Catalina spotted him and braved Japanese antiaircraft fire to drop a one ...

The PBY Catalina and the Black Cats Consolidated’s PBY Catalina was born out of a need to keep America’s sea superiority in the late 1930’s.

The Consolidated Catalina—technically designated the Model 28 at its inception, and the PBY in U.S. Navy service—led an impossibly varied and successful career in World War II.

This 100-year-old Navy veteran flew PBYs in World War II Dave Kindy Members of the Black Cat squadron wait for orders in the shade provided by the wing of a Consolidated PBY Catalina. There is a ...