World Catalina News

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Events around the world continue to keep me busy updating individual Catalina histories and once again there is no shortage of things to report on in this edition. Firstly, some European news.  The US-registered, former…

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There is no imminent danger of this column being discontinued as the world’s surviving population of Catalinas continues to generate news.  Indeed, two items in the last issue were out of date by the time…

As usual, The Catalina News brings readers a round-up of what has been happening around the world to the surviving population of Catalinas and is adapted from the article with the same name in The…

Activity in the world of surviving Catalinas around the globe continues unabated and once again there is plenty to report, mostly of a positive nature although, as will be seen, some projects are badly in…

For an old aeroplane, it is surprising how much activity and news it is still possible to report on in each issue of The Catalina News!  This web version of World Catalina News is adapted…

Yet again there is plenty to report in the way of PBY happenings around the world.  In fact, this really is a bumper edition so fasten seatbelts and off we go. …to Rand in South…

First a brief reminder that this column is taken with slight variations, from The Catalina News, the magazine received by paid-up members of The Catalina Society. The magazine itself is full of articles devoted to…

By the time I had finished the May 2007 edition, I was beginning to think that Catalina happenings around the world were starting to quieten down a little. How wrong could I be! If anything,…