Catalina.???

Nice looking colours, can’t wait for Legends to see it for real. Now if the silver Dutch Cat could stand next to it…

Thanks Chris, interesting gallery there…

do you ever work? 😀 very nice

Looks a lot better in the sun! 🙂

Ta Janie. 🙂

That makes sense – she was still Rasta’d up at Duxford four weeks ago, and I’m not sure whether a full paint strip and repaint would have been feasible since then.

Steve, check out the Plane Sailing Gallery here to view it’s progress from leaving Canada up to it’s recent re-paint. http://catalinabookings.org/gallery.asp

Ta Janie. 🙂

That makes sense – she was still Rasta’d up at Duxford four weeks ago, and I’m not sure whether a full paint strip and repaint would have been feasible since then.

Yes. I have no evidence, but I have a sneeking suspicion the Rasta scheme may still be hiding underneath the white.

I’ve not been following Catalina events closely – is this the Catalina formerly known as Rasta Cat?

Beginning of the fifities, an all white Cat with Army titles in black and green bottom visited Brussels. Unfortunately, no photograph available.

Very Nice Too. Well done to all involved. May she grace our airshow scene for many years to come! 🙂

At Edinburgh

Here you go …

A couple of low quality digital compact photos for you cropped and reduced in quality for forum of the Cat in her new colours.

Sorry about the quality.

The Catalina arrived back at Duxford sometime between 6pm and 7pm yesterday evening, certainly looks good in it’s new paint scheme.

6,15pm…I summise that may have been the Catalina I have just heard heading South…again in the distance just to the West of Spilsby, E. Lincs…I have been stooging round the garden hoping for an overflight on the way home…can’t win ’em all.!!….pleased enough to have seen it on its way North..

And earlier a Mustang ?? was spotted in the distance out to the East of Spilsby heading South..5,24pm

Clive.

Very nice, would look better with an RAF roundel though :-p Ah well i’m not that fussed, seeing a Catalina fly is good enough for me

It’ll be all white on the night! Nice and quick to mask up.

i did a google search and this is from the plane sailing site “where a complete repaint (to a USAAF colour scheme as flown from nearby Halesworth during WWII) is being carried out” i did a search Halesworth Pbys and apparently the 5th ERS was based at Halesworth. i might be completely wrong, but i think this is what the catalina will look like , this is what i found on google searching for 5th ERS catalina-

I must apologise for most of the East Fortune crowd today as most of them had already left by the time the big cat had arrived. But in fairness most of the crowd had been drenched about 4 times by this point if they hadnt sought shelter in the elephant shed (sorry hangar).

Thank you for the info’ Duxman…

All the best,
Clive.

Clive

Undoubtedly G-PBYA en route Cambridge for the East Fortune Show in her new US Navy colourscheme

Duxman