Bringing the Catalina Home
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The Catalina Flying Memorial has purchased the Catalina pictured above. We are now seeking help to restore and ferry home this historic aircraft.
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SEA PLANES TO THE RESCUE
In NSW we have made an association with the Water Police to offer our services during an emergency. We are already cooperating with the Voluntary Marine Rescue organizations, Customs Watch and State Fisheries
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.