The PBY Catalina airboat played a significant part in World War II, with models helping defeat German U-boats, helping in the Battle of Midway and other rescue efforts, according to the National ...

Among the combat veteran craft featured at the show are Princess of the Stars, a PBY-5A Catalina that flew with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II; a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a World ...

The Catalina Wine Mixer, a fictional event that played a pivotal role in the 2008 Will Ferrell comedy, didn’t exist — until Catalina Island made it so a decade ago.

Supreme Court declines case about T-shirt declaring ‘only two genders’ A Massachusetts middle school student said his free speech rights were violated when the principal said he could not wear ...

Catalina Crunch founder Krishna Kaliannan talks about tariffs affecting monk fruit imports from China, and the company's efforts to adapt recipes without raising prices.

Sailors attempt to save a burning PBY Catalina plane at Kaneohe Naval Air Station, Hawaii, during the Japanese surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941. (Naval History and Heritage Command) ...

I read about the Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter plane … not the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat. Combatants, not auxiliaries.

In a significant development for historic aircraft preservation, the National Naval Aviation Museum's PBY-5A Catalina (BuNo 46602) is now en route from Pensacola, Florida, to the Air Zoo in ...

The PBY Catalina and the Black Cats Consolidated’s PBY Catalina was born out of a need to keep America’s sea superiority in the late 1930’s.

November 1, 2024: In 2023 an American company has begun production of a 21st century version of the World War II PBY Catalina patrol aircraft. The new Catalina weighs 14.5-tons and is powered by two ...

A Catalina Airport official told a local news outlet that the plane that crashed Tuesday night shortly after takeoff, killing all five aboard, was not given clearance to take off that evening.