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The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet in Buffalo, New York, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the D
Tourists with a Consolidated Commodore flying boat used by Pan Am to fly routes in the Caribbean in the 1930s.
A Consolidated Aircraft hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport
Assembling a wing section, Fort Worth, Texas, October 1942
Consolidated Aircraft patch during WWII
Consolidated PBY Catalina
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The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina, is an American flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In U.S. Army service, i
Consolidated Aircraft
…Motors. Consolidated became famous during the 1920s and 1930s for its line of flying boats. The most successful of the Consolidated patrol boats was the PBY Catalina, which was produced throughout World War II and used extensively by the Allies. Equally famous was the B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber which, like the…
A Canadian built Canso A representing a United States Army Air Forces OA-10 operated in the UK.
PBY waist gunner mounting port side gun blister (1942)
Two technicians servicing the Twin Wasp engine of a Catalina, August 1942
A radar-equipped PBY-5A from VP-6(CG) over Greenland, in 1945