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PBY Catalina Survivors identifies Catalinas on display, and includes aircraft designations, status, serial numbers, locations and additional information. The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a twin-engined American flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s, designed by Consolidated Aircraft Co. Several variants were built at five US and Canadian ...
Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron EIGHT FIVE (HSC-85) was a United States Navy Reserve forces helicopter squadron (RESFORON) based out of Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California. The " FIREHAWKS " of HSC-85 are Reserve and Active Component Sailors who operate and maintain Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk helicopters.
The Catalina Affair is the name given to a Cold War incident in which a Swedish Air Force search and rescue/maritime patrol Catalina (Swedish designation "TP 47") was shot down by Soviet MiG 15 fighters over the Baltic Sea in June 1952 while investigating the disappearance of a Swedish Douglas DC-3 (later found to have been shot down by Soviet ...
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Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 23 was established on 29 September 2006 at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California. [1]On 26 January 2007, a MH-60S assigned to HSC-23 Detachment Three, and underway on USS Bonhomme Richard, crashed while conducting in-flight operations training off the coast of Southern California.
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On Tuesday, five Marines died when a military craft went down in Pine Valley, about 40 miles east of San Diego. The helicopter was traveling from Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nev., to ...
William Wrigley, Jr. gained control of Santa Catalina Island in 1919 and developed much of the infrastructure there in the 1920s, such as the Catalina Casino.In 1931, Wrigley decided to provide air service to the island directly rather than relying on Western Air Express, an effort led by his son, Philip K. Wrigley through Wilmington-Catalina Airline. [1]