A plan for a modernised, turboprop-powered version of the iconic Catalina is one step closer to becoming realised with a Hong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gordon was awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" while serving as commander of a Catalina Patrol Plane that ...

Initially developed in 1928 as a long-range flying patrol boat (PBY), the Catalina became the most popular flying boat of WWII with over 3,300 built, featuring unique designs like retractable wingtip ...

Before and after Dec. 7, 1941, the frequent appearance of big PBY Catalina flying boats skimming the wavetops in Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay would have been an eye-catching sight. A PBY-5A Catalina ...

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 Consolidated PBY Catalina, known as the Canso, is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft that was produced in the 1930s and 1940s. A certified submarine hunter this aircraft was vital in protecting ...

Gordon was awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" while serving as commander of a Catalina Patrol Plane that rescued 15 United States Army Fifth Air Force service members shot down in ...

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 ...

World War II produced numerous airmen awarded the Medal of Honor, the vast majority of whom flew in bombers or fighters. There were, of rare exceptions, of course, and among the rarest was Nathan ...