San Diego Air & Space Museum

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina (48406). This example was the 1,985th Catalina delivered to the U.S. Navy in December 1943. It was assigned to Johnston Island in the Pacific to patrol the Gilbert and Marshal Islands. After the war the aircraft was used by the Coast Guard, before finally being donated to the museum in 1986 by a civilian owner.

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