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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. 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
Scarborough, William E. PBY Catalina - Walk Around. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-89747-357-4; Wagner, Ray. The Story of the PBY Catalina (Aero Biographies Volume 1). San Diego, California: Flight Classics, 1972. Petit, Jean-Jacques. Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina en France. 2013 - 56 p ISBN 978-2-9528167-5-5
By summer 1999, there was a rivalry brewing between Catalina Cruises and Catalina Express. In May, Catalina Cruises launched the Catalina Jet, a 450-passenger, 36-knot catamaran that made the trip from Long Beach in about 55 minutes. In June, Catalina Express launched the Starship Express, a 300-passenger, 37-knot catamaran that could make the ...
Pete Engler, an instructor with the Long Beach Flying Club, has made the 20-minute hop across the channel to Catalina more than 400 times, he said.
The CAB approved plans for CAT to acquire two 17-passenger Lockheed Lodestars, which, during peak summer periods, would fly nonstop to Catalina from Los Angeles Union Air Terminal and Long Beach Airport, and during wintertime, fly Los Angeles-Long Beach-Catalina. 10 years after it started flying, CAT still charged $5 one way and proposed to ...
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