An in-depth look at the American Heritage Museum's restoration of PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 2459, the world's oldest flying Catalina. Rob Collings shares progress on the aircraft's unique systems, interior ...

The restoration of the world's oldest flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, BuNo 2459, is progressing at American Aero ...

T he Pacific Northwest Naval Air Museum in Oak Harbor is seeking docents so it can offer tours of the interior of its PBY-5A Catalina aircraft to the public this summer. Museum President Wil ...

You just have to sit in the pilot seat and you can just feel the history of this aircraft, Jim Allan said. THUNDER BAY – It’s not every day an 80-year-old plane flies into Thunder Bay for tours. On ...

May 29th, 2019, It was an exciting event but for many Catalina Aficionados in Holland also a sad day, as their beloved PBY-5A made its final flight out from Lelystad to the new owners in the USA.

‘We didn’t know it was impossible, so we did it,’ say Fairview farmers who restored Canso PBY-5A airplane FAIRVIEW, Alta. — Dreams took flight June 18 for six farmers from Fairview and for a community ...

Last week Thursday 22 August, a PBY-5A Catalina, a WWII-built Flying Boat/ Amphibian came over from The Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridge, UK. to visit Lelystad Airport, The Netherlands. Sweet ...

Almost immediately, just after midnight, the U.S. Navy destroyer group spotted the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers Take and Kuwa. The three ruthlessly bombarded both targets and set two ships ablaze ...

LifeStream blood bank is partnering with the Palm Springs Air Museum to help save lives while restoring to its former glory the World War II-era PBY-5A Catalina seaplane. PBY stands for “Patrol, ...

Many Oak Harbor residents drive past a covered PBY-5A Catalina on Pioneer Way, across the street from the Pacific Northwest Naval Museum, every day. Soon, that will change. In 1945, the Navy ...

Erection & Maintenance Instructions for Model PBY-5A Airplane released by the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy DepartmentConsolidated Aircraft CorporationSan Diego, ...

"This Midway Island based PBY discovered part of the Japanese Fleet on 3 June 1942 setting the course of the battle." (Painting, oil on wood, by John Hamilton; C. 1975, now in the collections of U.S.