Thursday, October 17, 2019

PBY’s over Hawaii ( 1940’s). Probably couldn't find three airworthy PBY's today.


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  1. There was a zero time PBY for sale at Moses Lake for years and years. I don't know if it ever sold. If you look around you can find the fkying, but like everything else they are expensive to operate.

    Dave

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  2. 21 if my count is right.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Consolidated_PBY_Catalinas

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  3. My uncle served in WW2 as a PBY crewman, he said it was the worst plane ever. I found out years later that he had survived at least two crashes in PBY's at sea

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  4. 68 total survivors. 19 still air worthy. 18 in restoration. All the rest on display or in storage---Ray

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