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	PBY Catalina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PBY Catalina was the United States Navy designation for an American and Canadian-built flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s.
		The name "Catalina" had been used by Consolidated for their commercial sales prior to the British order, and was eventually adopted by the US Navy on October 1, 1941.
		Catalinas were the most extensively used anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters of the Second World War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PBY_Catalina (2780 words)

	Consolidated PBY Catalina - VH-PBZ
		The Catalina operated and maintained by the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society, was purchased in 2002 in Portugal where it had been operated as a water bomber under Chilean registration, and was flown to Australia in September 2003.
		HARS intends to restore the Catalina to conform as closely as possible to the configuration of the famous RAAF "Black cats" of World War II.
		The Society's exhibit will proudly represent the "Black Cat" squadrons of the RAAF and will be a fitting tribute to the 239 Australian airmen who lost their lives undertaking hazardous bombing and mine laying missions both at night and in daylight, and always at very low altitudes.
	www.hars.org.au /fleet/catalina/index.html (544 words)

	Catalina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PBY Catalina, the United States Navy designation for an American and Canadian-built flying boat
		Pontiac Catalina, a full-size Pontiac model from the '50's to the 80's
		Catalina Orangetip, subspecies of the butterfly Desert Orangetip that is found only on Santa Catalina Island
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catalina (201 words)

	Commemorative Air Force - Lake Superior Detachment 101
		The PBY Catalina is a World War 2 vintage maritime patrol bomber and rescue aircraft.
		The PBY Catalina got its name from the British who used it extensively during WW2 after the United States delivered a large quantity via the lend-lease program which was instituted before the United States entered the war.
		The PBY was made in 7 major versions and produced over a considerable period of time from the 30’s thru the 40’s and continues to be actively used by civilian organizations for a variety of purposes even today.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/charlie6/pby2.html (1424 words)

	The Cutaway PBY Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The PBY CATALINA INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a non-profit organization whose mandate is to promote enjoyable camaraderie within the Catalina flying boat international community, became aware of this "once in a lifetime" specimen while holding its 1995 annual reunion in Pensacola and investigated what might be in store for it in the future.
		In consultation with the Museum, the PBY CIA learned that there are avenues for groups, such as the PBY CIA, to provide the funding support to proceed with a restoration project because, otherwise, it might take several years before they would be able to undertake the operation.
		After a survey of the members revealed that the Association had the capability of effective fund raising, the PBY CIA was instrumental in organizing a non-profit corporation to solicit, raise and disburse funds to finance the Cutaway PBY Display within The National Museum of Naval Aviation at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola Florida.
	home.earthlink.net /~cutawaypby (907 words)

	PBY Catalina - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The PBY Catalina was the definitive air-sea rescue aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s.
		The aircraft was flown across the Atlantic Ocean to the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe, Suffolk, England in July 1939.
		This was especially true in the first year, the Catalina and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress were the only two aircraft with the range necessary for these operations.
	education.music.us /P/PBY-Catalina.htm (1349 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft - Consolidated PBY Catalina
		The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the most-built flying boat of World War II: 3281 were built in the USA and Canada, and several hundred in the USSR.
		The PBY was jocularly described as the slowest combat aircraft of the war.
		In the Pacific the Catalina was the backbone of long-distance reconnaissance units, at the time of Pearl Harbour and thereafter.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/catalina.htm (1241 words)

	PBY Catalina Flying Boat
		The Catalina was manufactured principally at the Douglas plant at San Diego, California, to which the company had moved in the autumn of 1935, the Catalina maritime patrol flying boat was a classic aircraft produced in larger numbers than any other flying boat before or since.
		Better known as the 'Cat', it was dubbed 'Catalina' by the RAF, which placed large orders for the flying boat.
		The aircraft's ruggedness was shown when one Catalina crossed the Atlantic and landed safely despite having had both ailerons torn off by a storm.
	homepage.eircom.net /~wrgi/catalinaker.html (443 words)

	Consolidated PBY Catalina
		This armament, however, was not enough to remedy to Catalina's main comabt weakness: lack of speed.
		The Catalinas rugged construction usually helped to survive attacks that could not be pressed home, but if seriously engaged, the Catalina was a sitting duck.
		Catalinas located the IJN elements, and it was Catalinas, fitted with two torpedos each, that attacked the IJN invasion fleet at night an hit a Japanese tanker.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/pby_catalina.htm (449 words)

	PBY Catalina - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The name "Catalina" had been used by Consolidated for their commercial sales prior to the British order, and was eventually adopted by the US Navy on October 1 1941.
		It was a flight of Catalinas that spotted the Japanese fleet approaching Midway Island, beginning the Battle of Midway.United States Naval Historical Center (1999).
		Template:Main A Swedish military Catalina was shot down by Soviet aircraft over the Baltic Sea in June 1952 while investigating the earlier crash of a Swedish Douglas DC-3.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/PBY_Catalina (2391 words)

	Consolidated PBY
		The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the U. Navy's most successful patrol flying boat of the war but naval aviators also used the PBY to attack ships at night, and to search for and rescue people stranded at sea.
		The final development model of the PBY series was the PBY-6A, equipped with new radar, twin.50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, and a new tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1.
		Most commanders felt that the PBY lacked the defensive armament to fend off Luftwaffe fighters and patrol aircraft such as the Focke Wulf FW 200 Condor or the Junkers Ju 88 but several dramatic duels with these aircraft disproved the idea that PBY crews could not defend themselves.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/consolid_pby.htm (1539 words)

	Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		The last version of the 'Cat' to be developed, the PBY 6A, amphibian, was the culmination of a design associated with some of the most notable maritime air operations of the Second World War.
		Subsequently, the PBY series of flying boats and amphibians were built in greater numbers than any other aircraft of their type and used by Air Forces and civilian operators around the world.
		Beyond Europe, RAF and Commonwealth Catalinas patrolled the Indian and Pacific Oceans and flew in support of the Allied landings in North Africa.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /consolidated-pby-6a-catalina.htm (214 words)

	PBY - 5 CATALINA AIRPLANE MODELS
		In May l94l, a lend-lease PBY flown by a U.S. Navy pilot on duty as an instructor with the RAF, is credited with locating the German pocket-battleship Bismarck to be sunk the following day by a British battleship/cruiser force.
		It was also a PBY that made the only attack on a Japanese ship when it bombed a midget submarine on 7 December l94l, and later spotted the Japanese invasion and carrier strike forces during the Battle of Midway in June l942.
		It was in the latter functions that the PBY established its greatest legacy by sinking more enemy shipping than any other single type of aircraft during World War II.
	seagifts.com /pby5catairmo.html (491 words)

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		In 1939 the British RAF bought one PBY and soon placed large orders - it was the RAF which gave the aircraft its name 'Catalina'.
		In the Atlantic it performed vital service in the war against the U-boats, and an RAF Catalina famously located the Bismarck after the formidable German battleship had temporarily succeeded in escaping from British forces.
		It was a Catalina which first located the advancing Japanese forces during the decisive Battle of Midway.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/compass/Catalina.htm (513 words)

	PBY
		This PBY Catalina crew is shown in the Aleutians.
		The Catalina operated in every theater of the Pacific war, from the southern waters to the Aleutians.
		It was a Catalina that first spotted the Japanese fleet during the Battle of Midway, which marked the changing tide of the war.
	www.hlswilliwaw.com /aleutians/Aircraft/html/pby.htm (433 words)

	Diego Garcia - The PBY Catalina
		The Consolidated PBY first flew in the 1930s and was the definitive air-sea rescue aircraft of the age.
		The official nickname of the PBY was the "Catalina", though she was more commonly known as the "Cat", "P-Boat", or "Dumbo".
		The PBY on the beach at Diego Garcia was British, from RAF Squadron 240, and therefore is a "Catalina" (the Brits didn't give complicated designations to their aircraft).
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/pby.html (1284 words)

	Home of the Catalina PH-PBY - Home
		In het weekend van 26-27 augustus is de catalina naar de "Classic WIngs" airshow geweest vanwege de 100 ste verjaardag van de vliegclub Keulen.
		The Catalina PBY 5A is a one of a kind amphibian aircraft.
		The Stichting Catalina PBY offers the unique opportunity to sponsors and supporters to fly aboard the Karel Doorman.
	www.catalina-pby.nl /site/index.php?lang=EN (427 words)

	Consolidated PBY Catalina
		A British Catalina located and tracked the German battleship Bismark in May 1941, with U.S. Navy Lt(jg) "Tuck" Smith as copilot.
		By the end of 1941, when America entered the war, 16 squadrons were flying PBY-5s, with 1,200 horsepower R-1830-92 engines and capable of carrying four 325 pound depth charges (for use against submarines), two Mark XIII torpedoes or four 500 or 1,000 pound bombs.
		Able to remain airborne for more than 24 hours in the days before aerial refueling, the PBY served wherever there were oceans in World War II.
	rwebs.net /ghostsqd/pby.htm (335 words)

	ProModeler 1/48 PBY-5A Catalina, by Tom Cleaver
		The Catalina was the result of a 1933 Navy specification for a long-range patrol bomber to succeed the Consolidated P2Y-1 and the Martin P3M-1 flying boats which had entered service in 1931.
		When Monogram released their PBY-5 Catalina in 1994, it was in response to expressed desires by modelers in many annual surveys of “most-wanted kits” in Fine Scale Modeler and other magazines for an accurate 1/48 scale PBY.
		I have a personal connection to the Catalina, inasmuch as I grew up with my father alive and at home after the war, due to the fact he was rescued by a Catalina after three days adrift following the sinking of his radar picket destroyer by the kamikazes north of Okinawa in 1945.
	modelingmadness.com /reviews/allies/cleaver/cleaverpby.htm (2007 words)

	World War II Aircraft - Consolidated PBY Catalina
		The Catalina was created in response to the U.S. Navy's 1933 request for a prototype to replace the Consolidated P2Y and the Martin P3M with a new patrol-bomber flying boat with extended range and greater load capacity.
		The new Catalina design introduced internal wing bracing, which greatly reduced the need for drag-producing struts and bracing wires.
		A total of approximately 4000 Catalinas were built between 1936 and 1945.
	members.tripod.com /bf1o91/allied/fboats/catalina/catalina.htm (271 words)

	Academy 1/72 PBY-5 Catalina
		Named Catalina by the British the name was later adopted by the Americans.
		The PBY proved to be a very successful design, although slow it had a great range was versatile and rugged.
		One advantage of the Catalina in model form is that it can be made in two major sub assemblies (wing and fuselage) that can be joined after all work has been completed, making life easier.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/usaaf/pby-5-catalina.htm (819 words)

	PH-PBY 'The Dutch Cat'
		The Catalina's name Karel Doorman was revealed by the widow of this famous Dutch (Rear) Admiral, who was killed on 28Feb1942 in the Battle of the Java Sea.
		The Catalina is a unique amphibious airplane of which the Dutch Navy operated 78 during the period 1941 until 1957, mainly in the Far East.
		This Catalina is definitely a great addition to the Industrial Heritage of Holland, a restoration to be proud of.
	www.ruudleeuw.com /phpby.htm (2204 words)

	Amazon.com: Consolidated PBY Catalina: The Peacetime Record: Books: David Legg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With its distinctive design, the PBY Catalina flying boats soared through World War II and into history as one of the most resourceful aircraft ever flown.
		Other books concentrate on the Catalina's wartime feats, but this is the first full account of the PBY's colorful operational history outside of the war.
		Catalina expert David Legg offers an exhaustive country-by-country survey of both the military and commercial uses of this adaptable aircraft with detailed listings of their registration, type, place of manufacture, and construction numbers.
	www.amazon.com /Consolidated-PBY-Catalina-Peacetime-Record/dp/1557502455 (513 words)

	Catalina-Arizona Foreclosures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Catalina Cylinders is a leading producer of high and low pressure aluminum compressed gas...
		Catalina Cylinders is a division of Aluminum Precision Products, which was established...
		Catalina provides eight analog outputs for supporting 2 4 5.1 and 7.1 multi-channel speaker configurations.
	www.foreclosure-arizona-us.info /catalina.html (413 words)

	PBY Catalina Serial Number A24-3
		Sunk by strafing Japanese Zeros of the 4th Kokutai that raided Port Moresby, and strafed this Catalina while moored at Napa Napa, in Fairfax Harbor.
		Although the wreck was known since the war it was rediscovered in the first half of 2003 by the POMSAC - a Port Moresby Sub-Aqua Club, when the InterOil Refinery was being constructed.
		The wreck has not been positivily identified, but is either A24-3 or A24-6, one of the two Catalinas sunk during the air raid.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /aircraft/pby/A24-3.html (153 words)

	Consolidated PBY Catalina
		The prototype PBY (the XP3Y-1) first flew in 1935 and was a significant improvement over the patrol flying-boats then in service.
		The PBY was used for scouting, submarine patrol, search and rescue and transportation.
		The PBY Catalina was known as the Canso in Canada.
	www.shanaberger.com /PBY.htm (121 words)

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