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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 ...
The Catalina was operating a scheduled flight from Kangerlussuaq Airport to Godthåb for Greenlandair with 21 on board, while landing on the water at Goodthab harbour it sank with 15 passengers being killed. [1] Initial reports were that the aircraft had hit debris on the water. [2]
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 ]
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Consolidated PBY Catalina" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The aircraft was a Boeing-Canada PB2B-1 Catalina IVB—a version of the Consolidated PBY Catalina—with construction number 28129 and the Squadron code of KK-N. It was built in 1944 for the United States Navy. The aircraft was sold to Norway after the Second World War ended. It was bought by Vingtor Luftveier of Oslo and registered as LN-OAP ...
17 May – A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina flying boat dropped two depth charges on the U.S. Navy submarine USS S-33 (SS-138) at Longitude 165 degrees East while S-33 was on patrol off the Kuril Islands. S-33 reported the attack as occurring 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) east of the position the PBY reported and that she suffered no damage or ...
At the time only two US Navy PBY planes were at Roebuck Bay and no US crews were injured. In the raid 70 people killed and 24 aircraft were destroyed, 15 of the aircraft were flying boats at Roebuck Bay seaplane base. Some of these planes are still in the bay and can be seen about a mile offshore in low spring and king tides. [6] [7]
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