this particular flying boat was built as a PBY-5A by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in San Diego, California as Constructor’s Number 1886 and delivered to the U.S. Navy in March 1944.

Richardson, who had been the Navy’s first engineering ... including another aircraft designed for Consolidated by Isaac Laddon, the PBY Catalina, which remains one of the most successful flying ...

US Navy aircraft protractor Mk III B. The protractor consists of two pivoting plotting arms ... The squadron was based in east Africa and conducted anti-submarine patrols over the Indian Ocean in ...

After training he was assigned to the Air Transport Command, Air/Sea rescue, South Atlantic Theatre where he flew as a radio operator in a B-17H "Dumbo" rescue aircraft. He learned to operate U. S.