The restoration of the world's oldest flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina ... giving them a clear view of the engines. The FE ...

View of a Consolidated PBY "Catalina" bow turret ... photos of Canso and Catalina water-bombers appeared regularly on the front pages of 21st-century newspapers, flying over forest fires in ...

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 ...

Ed Lewis, chief of Spokane County Fire District 4 in Deer Park, once called Rude’s PBY one of the agency’s “front-line defenses” for homes in the Spokane area. Rude said the plane has an ...

On the 74th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, NOAA and University of Hawaii archaeologists released rare images of a sunken PBY-5 Catalina, a U.S. Navy seaplane that was lost during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

in front of one of the PBY Catalinas undergoing restoration Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021 at the Richard I. Bong Airport in Superior. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune Wages' visit gave them a chance ...

(j.g.) Essary the Distinguished Flying Cross. A PBY-5A ashore at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, in 1945. (Image credit: U.S. Navy) In all, 168 of the Cooper’s crew were rescued while 191 were killed.