Bill Klaers issued a warning to fans waiting to see the Consolidated PBY Catalina take flight from the National Museum of World War II Aviation Saturday morning. Even with the estimated 150 hours ...

In the Pacific, the Catalina crews purposely sought direct combat with the Japanese. At Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese destroyed most of six squadrons of U.S. Navy PBYs. Just before ...

PBY-5A Catalina patrolling near the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, the frigid wastes of which saw an air, sea and (ultimately) land campaign fought between the U.S. and Japan June 1942-August 1943.

The Black Cats would go on to contribute to the Catalina’s impressive combat records. The Military Aviation Museum’s PBY-5A Catalina taking off for the Arsenal of Democracy Flyover in 2020.

The Catalina was born on the frigid shores of Lake Erie in 1928 when Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, then located in Buffalo, ... Consolidated’s PBY-5 Catalina J. Mac McClellan ...

The PBY was the most numerous aircraft of its kind, and it proved so reliable in its role that the last of the World War II era aircraft weren’t retired until the late 1950s, while the Brazilian ...

Hewitt reminded the audience, "The PBY Catalina was the workhorse of maritime patrol for more than 20 years. The P-3 has been that same kind of workhorse for more than 40 years.

After four days of being half sunk and rocked by the surf on a sandbar near the Florida-Alabama state line, the Catalina PBY Flying boat was pulled from its resting place and towed out into deeper ...

Yesterday, a gorgeous Catalina PBY named Flora-Bama that was being used as a prop for the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie USS Indianapolis: Men of Honor began taking on water while performing touch ...

In the Pacific, the Catalina crews purposely sought direct combat with the Japanese. At Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese destroyed most of six squadrons of U.S. Navy PBYs. Just before ...

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