The restoration of the world's oldest flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, BuNo 2459 ... Due to hazardous sea conditions off Iceland, the aircraft was immediately assigned to VP-73 upon rolling ...

Two years before, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation’s PBY (short for “patrol bomber ... hot coffee and Vienna sausages were typical Catalina galley fare. Later, crews got Spam.

are reassembling a handful of vintage aircraft. The most unassembled and the highest priority is a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, a large amphibian with a 104-foot wing, out of which protrude a ...