Our patron Nancy Bird Walton has kindly donated this limited print by David Marshall of P G Taylor’s Frigate Bird II Catalina taxiing in the open ocean around Easter Island.
This aircraft currently hangs in the Power House Museum in Sydney.
The special print was gifted to Nancy by David Marshall because of their joint interests in this remarkable man, this remarkable aircraft and this remarkable feat.
To obtain funds to ferry and operate our own “Frigate Bird II” we are offering to sell by “Dutch” Auction this priceless print to the highest bidder, starting today and finishing at the Catalina festival - Oct 2008.
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Current Bid $1,000.00 (updated 23/04/08)
or send your bid to
Catalina Flying Memorial Ltd
ACN 103 492 440
Building 2, Ground Floor
35-41 Waterloo Rd
Macquarie Park NSW 2113
The limited print comes with a description of the event and the unique association with our own PBY Catalina VH-CAT.
The Rathmines Catalina
An Australian Flying Memorial
The Catalina Flying boat is one of the most distinctive aircraft ever built. It is of an era from another age – the era of the flying boat when airfields were scarce.
The Catalina preformed a significant role in Australians defense in World War II and Rathmines was then the world’s biggest flying boat base.
The Catalina Flying Memorial Ltd is bringing back to Australia one of the last airworthy examples of this aircraft and it is to be based at Rathmines, Lake Macquarie NSW.
At Rathmines, which is now listed as a heritage site, a museum to commemorate this World War II flying boat base is to be built, and where this Catalina is proposed to be housed.