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The PBY-5A Catalina ‘PB-501’ on show at the Dirgantara Mandala TNI-AU museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia as seen by Tom Singfield last year

World Catalina News – June 2025

This article is taken from the print version of The Catalina News magazine, Issue No 103, Spring/Summer 2025 received by subscribing members of The Catalina Society. A question frequently asked is: ‘How many Catalinas are…

David Legg2nd June 2025

Terrific recent front view of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Canso A C-FPQL Canadian Warplane Heritage

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World Catalina News – November 2024

As usual there is plenty to report on our favourite aircraft with lots of worldwide activity. This article is adapted from Issue 102 of The Catalina News magazine which is distributed to subscribing members of…

David Legg28th November 2024

The Catalina/Rolls-Royce Phantom II Challenge: the challenge is a modern take on Woolf Barnato’s famous race in 1930 against the ‘Blue Train’, the equivalent of today’s TGV, which ran from the south of France to Calais

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The Catalina vs Rolls-Royce Phantom II Challenge 2024

A press release concerning an event involving Catalina 'Miss Pick Up' next weekend - "The Catalina/Rolls-Royce Phantom II Challenge: the challenge is a modern take on Woolf Barnato’s famous race in 1930 against the ‘Blue…

David Legg26th August 2024

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Operation Shetland 2024: 80th Anniversary of Catalina VCs

Help us commemorate two Victoria Crosses (VCs) awarded to Catalina Pilots in 1944 by supporting a flight to Aberdeen, Shetland and Wick in the only remaining operational Catalina Flying Boat outside of the Americas. As…

David Legg1st July 2024

The sorry remains of PBY-5A N5593V in the Saudi desert where it has lain since 1960 Iain Macbeth

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World Catalina News – June 2024

There never seems to be any shortage of news about Catalinas from around the world so here is what has been going on since the last edition of our printed magazine (The Catalina News magazine…

David Legg10th June 2024

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Special Event for Future Catalina Shareholders 2024

Would you like to spend a few hours getting to know how you can become closely involved with the operation of a famous, historical, airworthy aircraft? We have successfully operated our wonderful Catalina Miss Pick Up…

David Legg31st May 2024

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World Catalina News – November 2023

This feature started to appear in print version of The Catalina News to update a multi-part list of worldwide Catalina and Canso survivors that had previously been published in the magazine’s early issues. This edition…

David Legg27th October 2023

PB2B-2 Catalina VH-ASA Frigate Bird II in its new, temporary position at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum in August 2022 Zan Wimberley

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World Catalina News – July 2023

Many surviving Catalinas around the world are now, or about to be, 80 years old although some will have to wait until next year. For such an old aircraft, there is still plenty of news…

David Legg13th July 2023

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World Catalina News – November 2022

There has been a surprising amount of news about Catalinas around the world since my last report, some of which is quite significant. This report is adapted from the version include in the latest edition…

David Legg30th November 2022

PBY-6A N4NC after arrival at its new home at the Liberty Aviation Musuem - the crew consisted of, left to right, Todd Mather, Scott Boyer and Doug Rozendaal. Liberty Aviation Museum

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World Catalina News – June 2022

There is no let-up in Catalina activity worldwide so without further ado, let’s go!.... The late Wilson ‘Connie’ Edwards was well known as a somewhat swashbuckling US warbird owner, one of the pilots that came…

David Legg5th June 2022

An Alliance with the RNLI – Miss Pick Up Continues to Help to Save Lives…..

Many of you will recall that after Miss Pick Up’s engine failure on Loch Ness in October 2020, the Catalina and its crew were rescued by the volunteer team from the Loch Ness RNLI Lifeboat…

David Legg31st May 2022

Some of the financial challenges of operating our Catalina

On the day when we return to display flying at the start of a new airshow year, it is perhaps worth reflecting on the past two years of limited activity and some of the financial…

David Legg3rd May 2022

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World Catalina News – November 2021

In this latest bumper round-up of news about Catalinas around the world, we feature aircraft as far afield as Russia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the USA. The article is reproduced from the latest…

David Legg23rd November 2021

Live GPS Tracker for Miss Pick Up

We're very happy to announce that you can now keep tabs on Miss Pick Up using our live GPS tracker! Simply follow this link to see what she's up to and where: https://maps.findmespot.com/s/5D6L

Mike Pinder9th June 2021

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World Catalina News – May 2021

As always, there is news to report from around the world although our column is fairly short this time. Do contact the Editor if you have any news to report. Our Catalina Society website hosts…

David Legg25th May 2021