US Naval Aviation Training Division

Consolidated PBY Catalina World War 2 US airplane

Aeroplane identification poster, 1943



The PBY Catalina is a flying boat used extensively during World War 2 in anti-submarine patrols, air-sea rescue, patrol bombing and convoy escort. It served militarily until the 1980s and was still being used in the 2010s as a waterbomber for firefighting. The RCAF called it the Canso.

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