When Ward Wages, 99, sat in the cockpit of the PBY Catalina stored on the tarmac at Superior's Richard I Bong Memorial Airport, it was the first time he had been in that type of plane since 1943.

The second attempt to lift the PBY Catalina was successful as the Army Chinook picked up the PBY Catalina, flew out over Skagit Bay to the east, then turned into the airspace of NAS Whidbey Island and ...

Have You Always Wanted To Fly The PBY? Now available for download for FSX, the PBY Catalina has a long history of service to the military, mostly with the US Navy ...

Click to open image viewer. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, tall tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1; outrigger floats from each wingtip, hinged to fold ...

After a 67-year absence, a PBY 5A Catalina seaplane can once again call Whidbey Island Naval Air Station home. The flying boat, which was stationed in Oak Harbor in 1945, arrived at the Seaplane Base ...

The restoration of the world's oldest flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, BuNo 2459, is well underway at American Aero Services in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. After several years in the Netherlands, ...