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The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a twin-engined flying boat developed by the American company Consolidated Aircraft as a maritime patrol aircraft for use by the United States Navy. It had a wingspan of 31.7 metres (104 ft), a fuselage length of 19.5 metres (64 ft), and a beam of just over 3.0 metres (9.8 ft).
The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In US Army service it was designated the OA-10 , in Canadian service as the Canso and it later received the NATO reporting name Mop . [ 4 ]
A Catalina preparing to land in Tol Anchorage. One of the advantages of flying boats such as the Catalina was the ability for them to land in isolated outposts too small for runways. The aircraft continued to be used in immediate post-war period, being used to assist with the repatriation of former prisoners of war from Singapore to Australia.
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 ...
Consolidated PBY Catalina: 1936 1,871 Twin engine monoplane flying boat patrol bomber Consolidated PB2Y Coronado: 1937 217 Four engine monoplane flying boat patrol bomber Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor: 1939 1 Prototype twin engine monoplane flying boat patrol airplane Consolidated B-24 Liberator: 1939 ~9,251 Four engine monoplane heavy bomber
No. 330 (N) Squadron began supplementing the N-3PBs with Consolidated Catalina flying boats in 1942 and both the Catalina and the N-3PB began to be displaced in February 1943 by the arrival of the more capable Short Sunderland. [15] [30] Flying boats allowed for longer patrols to be carried out, and had superior seakeeping qualities to the N ...
A USAAF Consolidated OA-10A Catalina (Army Air Forces designation of the Navy PBY) amphibious flying boat landing in waters off Keesler Field, Mississippi during a training exercise with U.S. Marine Corps rescue boat crews in 1944. Air-sea rescue by flying boat or floatplane was a method used by various nations before World War II to pick up ...
RAF Castle Archdale was located on the eastern shore of Lower Lough Erne, near the village of Lisnarick. It was used during the Second World War by flying boats of No. 209 Squadron RAF. From Castle Archdale, Consolidated Catalinas and Short Sunderlands could patrol the North Atlantic for German U-boats.