After World War II, Britain dreamed of reviving luxury air travel with flying cruise ships like the Saunders-Roe Princess, ...

This 100-year-old Navy veteran flew PBYs in World War II Dave Kindy Members of the Black Cat squadron wait for orders in the shade provided by the wing of a Consolidated PBY Catalina. There is a ...

The Philippine Mars, a WWII-era Martin JRM Mars flying boat, is being retired to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona. A previous plan to send the aircraft to the National Naval Aviation Museum in ...

The Consolidated PBY Catalina, or Pigboat, was one of the most versatile and effective multi-role aircraft of World War II.

A rare World War II-era flying boat called the Philippine Mars made a pit stop in the Bay Area this past weekend. The boat landed in the Bay Area on Sunday from the British Columbia and anchored ...

Initially developed as a Navy patrol flying boat, the aircraft later served as cargo transport. The Philippine Mars will be displayed at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona. The last Martin Mars ...

After several months spent at Lake Pleasant, northwest of Phoenix, the Philippine Mars, Martin JRM Mars flying boat, is on its final journey to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson. The aircraft was ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — The largest World War II water bomber is completing its slow but steady trek across Arizona before going to its final resting place. The Philippine Mars, also known as the ...

Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a smaller ...

Southwest Industrial Rigging used a Western Star 49X to move a massive, 76,000-pound Mars flying boat to its new home at the ...