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

Developed from 1928, the Catalina (originally PBY) was a long-range flying boat known for its unique design features like retractable wingtip floats and a high-mounted wing, capable of 4,000-mile ...

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 ...

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

The optimism of the post-WWII era remains unparalleled, and justifiably so. One dark, painful episode had just wrapped, and humanity was itching to embark on new adventures, to live life to its ...

A single PBY Catalina sighting on June 3, 1942 helped confirm Japan’s target and gave Admiral Nimitz the advantage he needed.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...