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 ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — I visited the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach and spoke with museum director Keegan Chetwynd. He told me the story behind one of the more unique-looking aircraft in ...
OAK HARBOR, Wash. – A story, years in the making, came to an end for the city of Oak Harbor when a CH-47 Chinook air crew from the Washington Army National Guard air lifted a World War II-era PBY-5a ...
The Superior based Lake Superior Squadron is participating in a worldwide fundraising effort to support its ongoing PBY Catalina restoration project. Every year, the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF) ...
On Friday, abc27 salutes Harold Sandy Harper. Harper served in the Navy during World War II in the South Pacific as a nose-gunner on a PBY plane. He also served in the Korean War. He is now 101 years ...
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 ...