[ARC5] Famous PBY Found

[Leslie Smith]

  Here, in Australia, Lake Macquarie was a Catalina base in WWII.
  A group has acquired one, and is in the process of restoring it.
  It flies.  The base was called "Rathmines".  Every year, in Oct/Nov,
  the group hold an "open" day.
  Some buildings survive.  (Mess, assembly etc.  Also
  launching/maintenance ramps)


  73 de Les Smith
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Thu, Aug 13, 2015, at 00:52, Sandy wrote:
> Bravo, Bravo!  I remember the "hoard" of PBY's at Coco Solo base in 
> Panama Canal Zone where i went as a kid 4 years old just after "Pearl 
> Harbor Day".  We spent 4 years there and returned to New Orleans just 
> before "VE" day.  Years later I got some rides in them in Brazil doing 
> radio maintenance on oil platforms in the Amazon River delta area.  
> Consolidated aircraft had a factory in New Orleans that made parts for 
> them during the war.
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> I am sure some of the old PBY's restored in New Orleans' "Lakefront 
> airport" are maybe still flying in Brazil?
> 
> 73 to all,
> 
> Sandy W5TVW
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> On 8/12/2015 9:29 AM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> >    The story of PBY-5A, CATALINA Strawberry 5 discovery and restoration for the US Navy museum in San Diego. It was the only remaining intact PBY-5 Catalina remaining in the World, and it was discovered in South Africa.
> > PBY "STRAWBERRY 5" was the plane that found the Japanese carriers in the 'Battle of Midway'
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