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CONSOLIDATED PBY-5A (OA-10) CATALINA
1939
 
MULTI-ROLE/TWIN-ENGINE FLYING BOAT
  
 
 
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DATA
  
 
CONSOLIDATED PBY-5A (OA-10) CATALINA
 
CLASSIFICATION
CLASS :
 MULTI-ROLE/TWIN-ENGINE FLYING BOAT
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN :
 UNITED STATES
MANUFACTURER :
 CONSOLIDATED VULTEE AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
FIRST FLIGHT :
 1939
SERVICE DELIVERY :
 DECEMBER 1943
NUMBER BUILT :
 802
   
SPECIFICATION
SPAN :
 104 ft
LENGTH :
 63 ft 10 in
HEIGHT :
 20 ft 2 in
WING AREA :
 1,400 sq ft
WEIGHT EMPTY :
 20,910 lbs
WEIGHT LOADED :
 33,975 lbs
WEIGHT MAX :
 35,300 lbs
POWER PLANT :
 Two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92, 1,200 @ Takeoff, 1,050 hp @ 7,000 ft
 
 Two-Row, Twin Wasp Radial Engines
ARMAMENT :
 1 x 30 Machine Gun in Nose Turret
 
 2 x 50 cal Machine Gun Amidship in Two Sliding Waist Hatches
 
 1 x 50 cal Machine Guns in Bottom Rear of Hull Firing
 
 Through Tunnel Opening
BOMB LOAD :
 4 x 325 lbs Depth Charges in Underwing Racks, or
 
 4 x 500 lbs Bombs in Underwing Racks, or
 
 4 x 1000 lbs Bombs in Underwing Racks, or
 
 2 x 1,435 lbs Mark XIII Torpedoes, 8,000 lbs Total Bomb Load
CREW :
 8 - Pilot, Co-pilot, Bow Turret Gunner, Flight Mechanic, Radioman,
 
 Navigator and Two Waist Gunners
   
PERFORMANCE
MAXIMUM SPEED :
 179 mph @ 7,000 ft
CRUISING SPEED :
 117 mph
LANDING SPEED :
 78 mph
CLIMB RATE :
 10,000 ft in 19.3 min
RANGE :
 2,545 miles Patrol, 1/660 miles w/ 4 x 325 lb Bombs, 1,820 miles
 
 w/ 2,000 lbs Bombs
SERVICE CEILING :
 14,700 ft
 
 
 
 
 
 
REFERENCES
  
 

Gunston, Bill. The Illustrated Directory of Fighting Aircraft of World War II. New York: Prentice Hall Press. 1988. ISBN 0-13-450454-2.

Gunston, Bill. JANE'S Fighting Aircraft of World War II. New Jersey: Crescent Books, 1992. ISBN 0-517-67964-7.

Wagner, Raymond. American Combat Planes, Third Enlarged Edition New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1982. ISBN 0-385-13120-8.

  
 
     
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