The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off ...

It was expected that the airport would continue to operate for at least two more years – but in March Truman announced that ...

It wasn’t fast, sleek, or beautiful—but the PBY Catalina was everywhere. This “flying boat” saved lives, spotted enemies, and became one of WWII’s most quietly essential aircraft.

The original Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious flying boat first flew in 1936 and served 41 nations during World War Two across a variety of missions. An estimated 3,308 variants were built between ...

In the 1950s, The Landseaire was the ultimate adventure machine, based on the WWII-era PBY Catalina flying boat. It featured beds, bathrooms, kitchens, and deployable boats, making it a long-range ...

To create the Martin Mars, the Martin Company scaled up its own PBM Mariner patrol bomber flying boat, an already large airplane designed to complement the smaller Consolidated PBY Catalina and ...

Among the favorite ex-military warbirds in their arsenal were PBY Catalina amphibious flying boats, PB4-Y2 Privateer patrol bombers, and even Grumman Tigercat fighters and Douglas DC-6 airliners.

Consolidated’s PBY Catalina was born out of a need to keep America’s sea superiority in the late 1930’s. The U.S. Navy’s then-current fleet of Consolidated P2Y and Martin P3M flying boats ...

Bettmann//Getty Images PBY-5A Catalina patrolling near the Aleutian ... But despite their critical roles in World War II, flying boats and amphibious aircraft rapidly fell out of fashion in ...

WASHINGTON — Arthur Hibray piloted PBY Catalina “Dumbos” — seaworthy planes equipped with boat hulls — across ... downed Marine pilot who had been flying an F4U Corsair.

Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.) Perhaps the most iconic flying boat of World War II was the Consolidated PBY Catalina (see “Bombs, Beer, and Black Cats”). Affectionately called ...