Consolidated's PBY Catalina was born out of a need to keep America's sea superiority in the late 1930's. The U.S. Navy's then-current fleet of Consolidated P2Y and Martin P3M flying boats suffered ...

This is the story of the Canadair CL-415, a Canadian-designed, Canadian-built amphibious water bomber pulling overtime over America's most famous zip codes.

It was the first of the Consolidate Aircraft Company’s flying boats, which would lead to such aircraft as the legendary PBY Catalina. During the 1920s, flying boats were among the largest fixed ...

Work began in 1941 to build the Llanfaes factory, which converted American Catalina flying boats for the RAF to use in anti-submarine work. After the war, production switched to making buses ...