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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 ]
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.
A Catalina at the Israeli Air Force Museum in Hatzerim ... This aircraft was a United States Army Air Forces unit, ... US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Atlantic War ...
The National Museum of the United States Air Force has one of the world's largest ... Wright Military Flyer (1909 ... Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina 46595 ...
United States Navy PBM-5A (Bureau Number (BuNo) 122071) is the only surviving Mariner. It is on loan from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. , and is currently on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. [ 34 ]
The original PBY cruised at about 125 mph. The downside of the Innovator conversion was the gross weight of the aircraft increased to over 29,000 lbs. This exceeded the 27,000 lbs maximum that the US Military considered safe for water operations. [2] [3]
Cooper sank at about 00:15 with the loss of 191 lives (168 sailors were rescued from the water on 4 December by Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats). At 00:33, the two surviving U.S. destroyers were ordered to leave the bay, and the victorious Japanese successfully resupplied Ormoc Bay once more.
Dutch Dornier Do 24s taking off from Roebuck Bay 1941 At Broome airstrip a US B-24 is destroyed in the March 3, 1942 raid Crews with the Dutch Naval Aviation Service's Dornier Do 24 at Darwin Harbour, the Dornier Do 24 would be later attacked at Broome Typical US Navy PBY Catalina and crew during World War II Corinna and Centaurus sister ship, Coriolanus Short Empire, S.23 flyingboat