Built for US Navy as 48406. Operated as N5590V 1956-1986. Exhibited in the museum since that date wearing USN colours.

Built for the USN as a PBV-1A and transferred to the USAAF as an OA-10A. After World War II sold to Cathay Pacific as VR-HDH. Transferred to subsidiary Macau Air Transport. TAA bought it as a replacement for VH-WWC which had sunk. Undercarriage removed to increase payload. Withdrawn from use in January 1966. Patair bought -SBV for its engines. Plans to preserve the airframe in Papua New Guinea did not eventuate and it was shipped to the Museum of Transport & Technology in New Zealand. TAA photo.

VH-WWC was operated by World Wide Air Services in Papua New Guinea on behalf of Australasian Petroleum for oil exploration. In 1961 it was sold to Trans Australia Airlines for use on airline services . It struck a submerged object and sank at Daru on April 26, 1962. The seaplane base at Port Moresby operated from 1939 to 1966. In 1967 it became a patrol boat base, for the Australian Navy and today the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. Photo from Trans Australia Airlines.

Built for US Navy as PBY-5A Catalina BuAer 46590. Made a promotional tour of Australia in 1981 painted as "A24-387". Deteriorated at Harlingen and later used for spares recovery and scrapped.

Ex BuAer 33968 and N5582V. Taken during the early stages of a protracted overhaul. Aircraft is now at Whidbey Island NAS WA.

The Catalina hiding behind Piper PA-22 N7124D is N84857 ex BuNo 33968. While taxiing for take-off at Lewistown, MT on 9 May 1985, this aircraft's brakes failed. It ended up in a gully, its nose section completely crushed. The aircraft remained stored at Lewiston until it was repaired in the 1990s (see here) using the nose section of RCAF 11029 c/n CV-311. In Sep 2000 the Catalina was dismantled and trucked to here for further restoration, and by Sep 2005 it had been reassembled as seen in this photo. On 25 June 2010 a Boeing Vertol 234 helicopter airlifted it to NAS Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor, WA for static display. Sorry for the obtrusive fence!

Carrying display reg JV928. Owned at that time by Plane Sailing and seen here at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

Formerly 46539 of the US Navy and N1563M, this Catalina used to be in open storage in Elizabeth City. Shipped to Java, she is now in the Indonesian air force museum representing an Air Squadron 5 aircraft.

The Northwest Territories coat of arms and their official territorial flower, the Mountain Aven, decorating the fin of this hangared Catalina, with "Mountain Aven Protecting N.W.T. Beauty" titles.

Sold as N483CV in Oct 2007.

At the Avalon Airshow 2011, Day Six. Ex US Navy 46679.

With new artwork 'Miss Pick Up' at Duxford Air Show

At the Avalon Airshow 2013, Day Five

Ex RCAF 11042, later Government of Quebec (C-FPQF, Tanker 711). Officially registered to Athenian Airlift Services (Minos X. Kyriakoú) on 31 Aug 1994, and seen here on delivery to them via Palma.

Air Rescue Service Catalina from Hamilton Field flying over Marin County, north of San Francisco. Photographed from an AF Reserve AT-6C. Ex BuNo 67888, later to CF-NCJ.

Canadian Vickers former RCAF 11047

Shows signs of a serious oil leak.

This Catalina hit a steel buoy on landing in Plymouth Sound.