The American Heritage Museum's painstaking restoration of its Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina (BuNo 2459) has entered its final and most exacting phase, with the team now working toward a highly ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - During World War II, America gained the upper hand on Japan’s imperial navy thanks in large part to what essentially was the world’s first stealth fighter, the PBY Catalina.

When Ward Wages, 99, sat in the cockpit of the PBY Catalina stored on the tarmac at Superior's Richard I Bong Memorial Airport, it was the first time he had been in that type of plane since 1943.

In a preservation project dubbed “the Cat came back,” a group of Victoria aircraft buffs are restoring a Second World War plane, a PBY Catalina. It’s a project to restore a plane that flew real patrol ...