A Brief History
About 3,300 PBYs were produced and some are still flying today in various capacities such as flying geological surveys, transports, flying outdoor adventures into virgin wilderness area for hunting and fishing and until just recently in fighting wildfires.

The origin of the PBY started in 1933 when the U.S. Navy began a program to replace the Consolidated P2Y and the Martin P3M with a new patrol-bomber flying boat capable of extended range and with a greater load capacity. The U.S. Navy contracted Consolidated and Douglas to build competing prototypes. These prototypes were designated the XP3Y-1 and the XP3YD-1 respectively but only one prototype of the Douglas design was built. Consolidated's XP3Y-1, however, was destined to become the most extensively built flying boat in aviation history.

This add-on for FSX and FS2004 contains:

Aircraft:
PBY-5A Catalina

Liveries included…
- 433924
- Fire
- US Navy
- Black
- Paint Kit