Recent reports that the U.S. Department of War is moving to contract a new generation of seaplanes for missions in the ...

Watch the maiden flight of the PBY Catalina RC model, where nearly three crashes test its stability and handling. See how this detailed scale model performs in its first real-world flight.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Consolidated Aircraft lapel pin; ...

The restoration of the world's oldest flying Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, BuNo 2459, is well underway at American Aero Services in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. After several years in the Netherlands, ...

South African engineer Henri Johnson invented the world’s first Doppler radar speed gun specifically for ball tracking in ...

Russo Street in Providence is less than a half mile long, running parallel to Charles Street, from Hawkins Street north to Social Street. What most of us do not know was that in the 1930s it bore the ...

Pearl Harbor’s 84th Anniversary emphasizes the "Pathways to Peace" theme and reflection on the 1941 attack. Pacific Historic Parks highlights that 2025 marks 80 years since the end of World War II.

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. Today ...

Florida-based Catalina Aircraft, which holds type certificates for the PBY-5A Catalina with US and Canadian civil aviation regulators, has revealed plans to launch a modernized version of the iconic ...