Warbird Information Exchange

In great news on the evening of Anzac Day in Australia i am happy to release an exclusive story for all military enthusiasts and warbird enthusiasts - a new Catalina flying boat is coming to Australia - press release and photos now available - http://philbuckleytravels.wordpress.com ... -catalina/

Raise a glass on ANZAC Day to these guys with great foresight>>>

Congrats to the new owners. That was the recent EBay PBY. I heard it maybe going down under. A group of us were looking at it too but couldn't confirm the originality of the data plate with respect to getting a confirmation as to whether or not this specific PBY was a former Coast Guard PBY. We tried to get pics of the data plate from the seller with no success so we backed off.

Seems the press release has had a good result as the Rathmines Catalina Memorial Park Trust has received much interest in last 24hrs coming from US, UK and Australia and media it seems.....

Great to see another one of these beauties saved!

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

Another update on the progress http://www.lakesmail.com.au/story/14700 ... em/?cs=750

Also if you wish to help donate you can send money to their bank account if interested

Full name of organisation is - RATHMINES CATALINA MEMORIAL PARK TRUST,
ABN 23 400 220 598 .
We are a registered charity and donations over $2 are tax deductible.
Bank details for direct deposits at any ANZ Bank or online -
a/c name - RATHMINES CATALINA FUND
a/c # - 267010435
BSB - 012 842

Keep your receipt details for tax purposes.

According to Mr. Dave Swanson , the past registration was YV-485C
And as she will be a static , the Catalina will not be registered in Australia.

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Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

Its most recent registration was N7238Z but I don't think it was painted on the airframe which remained marked as YV-485C, its former identity.

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David Legg
Editor, The Catalina News
The Catalina Society
Author: Consolidated PBY Catalina - The Peacetime Record

Dave,

I sent you a PM. Let me know if you got it.

Thanks...John

Done!

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David Legg
Editor, The Catalina News
The Catalina Society
Author: Consolidated PBY Catalina - The Peacetime Record

More news to share - the commencement of work to strip out interior, (first of 12 sequences), has been authorised. The dismantling of various sections in preparation for shipment will follow.
The team expect to return to San Juan in 3-4 weeks to over see final preparations in readiness for shipment.

We have an update for you to share - http://philbuckleytravels.wordpress.com ... atalina-2/

A brief press release was published in the Australian Pilot / AOPA magazine warbird section, out on sale this week, updating people to this new project.

We have a update on http://philbuckleytravels.wordpress.com ... atalina-2/ - see the July 1 2013 PDF file link.

Any idea on what the deal is with the engine types on this PBY? I looked at Wiki and they have several 1830 variants listed for PBY's but I didn't see a -75 listed. Just curious.....