02/28/2011. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The first PBY-2 produced was, according the late W.T. Larkins, pictured ready for delivery. VP-11, the first USN patrol squadron to operate the PBY-1 Catalina, was also the first to get the new PBY-2, Consolidated Model 28-2. The aircraft water-looped on landing in Pensacola Bay, Florida, August 15, 1944, thirteen days later it was struck off charge. Note the retractable wing floats.