The American Heritage Museum's historic PBY-5A Catalina has returned to flight following an extensive restoration by American ...

Building a PBY Catalina RC plane from scratch involves careful planning, detailed construction, and thorough flight ...

The Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Catalina PBY flying boat is an icon of the World War II era, but this ancient design may have new life when brand-new examples are built using modern turboprop ...

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 ...

OAK HARBOR, Wash. – A story, years in the making, came to an end for the city of Oak Harbor when a CH-47 Chinook air crew from the Washington Army National Guard air lifted a World War II-era PBY-5a ...

Gordon was awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" while serving as commander of a Catalina Patrol Plane that rescued 15 United States Army Fifth Air Force service members shot down in ...

13.25 x 19 in. (33.7 x 48.3 cm.) ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — I visited the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach and spoke with museum director Keegan Chetwynd. He told me the story behind one of the more unique-looking aircraft in ...

Text printed on the recto side of the leaves, only. Mechanically reproduced from typescript. Probable date range of issue based on dates of production for the PBY-2. 1. Foreword -- 2. General ...