The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In US Army service it was designated the OA-10, in Canadian service as the Canso and it later received the NATO reporting name Mop. [4]

2023年7月28日 · A famous WWII flying boat is making a legitimate comeback for modern war. The legendary Catalina is suiting up again—really.

2020年10月25日 · THE CONSOLIDATED PBY was not one of the Second World War’s more glamorous warplanes; it was a slow and ungainly, twin-engine “flying boat.” Yet despite its odd appearance, it would go on to become the most numerous and successful amphibious float plane in …

The RAF favoured flying boats for their longer range but did have to accept twelve PBY-5A aircraft (designated Catalina IIIA) under Lend-Lease. True to its tradition of shunning alphanumeric designations, the RAF named their PBY’s Catalina’s, a name adopted by …

From spotting the German battleship Bismarck, to locating the Japanese fleet off Midway, to its vital roles in air-sea rescue and sinking enemy submarines, the PBY was the war’s most successful flying boat.

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 Soviet version was known as GST, MP-7 or KM-2, depending on the engines.)

2021年6月11日 · Building on its successful P2Y sesquiplane flying boat of the early 1930s, Consolidated won a 60-aircraft contract from the U.S. Navy in 1935 for the Model 28 Catalina, which entered service a year later as the PBY-1. The Navy anticipated trouble with Japan, for which long-range reconnaissance aircraft would be essential.

2024年11月22日 · The Catalina was developed in the early 1930s, with its prototype taking flight in 1935. Designed to patrol the extensive coastlines of the United States and defend strategic zones such as the Panama Canal, it featured several innovative design elements.