The phone rang. It was my sister-in-law. “We’ve just bought a stamp with a picture of your airplane,” she said. “Yes, the PBY.” I don’t suppose that means much to most folks in 2005. But to the ...

A World War II-vintage firefighting airplane credited with saving homes in Eastern Washington has fought its last blaze. State officials say the 1946 Patrol Bomber Y, or PBY, plane – the last of its ...

A World War II-vintage airplane that’s fought fires in Eastern Washington for more than 20 years is ready to go. Housed at Deer Park Airport, the Patrol Bomber Y scooper plane underwent its annual ...

Beachgoers at Orange Beach on the Alabama Gulf Coast got a surfside view this week when a vintage Navy PBY plane used during filming of USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage landed offshore and began to ...

For the past 20 years, divers have unsuccessfully tried to explore and photograph a PBY-5 Catalina seaplane shot down during Japan’s opening salvo of the Pearl Harbor attack. Now, some 74 years after ...

The new World War II thriller Greyhound is an exciting film that portrays the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of a U.S. Navy destroyer Captain, played by Tom Hanks. In the film’s opening ...

A team of archaeologists has released images and video of a US Navy plane which sank during the opening minutes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Minutes before the attack on the naval ...