Consolidated PBY Canso & PBY5A Catalina

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Filename-DL Site	Simulator	File Description
ed-50.zip flightsim.com	FS2002 FS2004 ACOF	RCAF Consolidated Canso. This is the 11084 RCAF 103 Rescue Unit + 413 Tusker Squadron Consolidated Canso. Textures only for Mike Stone's Consolidated Catalina (SPBY5A.ZIP). Repainted by Ed. DesRoches and Brent Robillard.
hornell.zip flightsim.com	FSX	PBY Canso, David Hornell RCAF. Textures for Alphasim freeware Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina. On June 24, 1944 while persuing U-1225, David Hornell's Canso was attacked and caught fire. He managed to sink the sub before ditching in the sea near the Faroes. For 21 hours Hornell was instrumental in preserving the lives of the surviving crew members, but died soon after being rescued. He was the RCAF's first Victoria Cross recipient. By Peter Lorimer.
jk_pby_c-fcrr.zip avsim.net	FSX	Consolidated PBY Catalina C-FCRR Repaint for the Aerosoft PBY Catalina for FSX. It is shown here as C-FCRR, with Air France colors. Built by Boeing of Canada at Vancouver, it became RCAF Canso 9767 on March 4, 1943, and was allocated to Squadron 162, coded S, at Reykjavik, Iceland. In 1944, piloted by Flying Officers Thomas Charles Cooke and Eric Walter Wiskin, 9767 sank the German U-boat U-342 off the coast of Iceland on April 17. The amphibian was removed from the military service on April 1, 1946. The same year it was sold to Canadian Pacific Airlines, registered CF-CRR. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the repaint kit by Aerosoft.
jk_pby_f-bbcd.zip avsim.net	FSX	Consolidated PBY Catalina F-BBCD Repaint for the Aerosoft PBY Catalina for FSX. It is shown here in the colors of F-BBCD of Air France. F-BBCD was built by Boeing of Canada with buno 22020 as a Canso A. It served with the Canadian Air Force with registration 9791. In 1947, it was bought, with two other Canso's, by Air France, converted to carry passengers, and used in the Caribbean for flights between Fort de France and San Juan, Point a Pitre and Port of Spain. It was used until 1951, when it was sold to the Foshing Air Transport Corporation of Formosa (now Taiwan) where it was registered XT-1402 and later B-1402. It disappeared over the ocean between Matsu and Taipei on the 1st of October 1958. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the repaint kit by Aerosoft.
pby_sr2.zip	FS2004 ACOF	Boeing Canada Canso SR2 - RCAF Search and Rescue 1957. Fully reflective textures for Mike Stone's PBY Catalina in the color scheme of RCAF Search and Rescue Canso SR2. Textures only; requires SPBY5A.ZIP. Textures by Geoff Chambers
pby5rcaf.zip	FS5 ??	RCAF Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina Serving multiple amphibian roles during the second World War, the RCAF used it primarily after the war for Rescue mission along the Canadian Coast lines.
pbyfsx.zip flightsim.com	FSX	RCAF Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina This is an update for FSX of Mike Stone's Consolidated PBY5A. It was only necessary to reposition two float points and change some gauges on the panel for the previous update of it to work in FSX. This update includes textures by Geoff Chambers, the Canadian textures. This is the whole aircraft. No virtual cockpit. By Bob Chicilo.
rcaf_pby.zip flightsim.com	FSX	RCAF Consolidated PBY5 Catalina A repaint of the Aerosoft PBY 5 Catalina in the colors of RCAF utilizing the paint kit provided by Aerosoft. Textures only. By Henry William.
rcafsar.zip	FS2004 ACOF	RCAF-SAR PBY Catalina. Textures only for Mike Stone's Consolidated PBY Catalina; requires RDAFL861.ZIP. By Henry William.

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