Connecting sky, sea, and strategy.
Catalina Aircraft Company is building a modern amphibious aircraft that flies farther and lands where runways don't exist, for firefighting, search and rescue, maritime patrol, and transport.
Headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida, Catalina Aircraft Company is developing the Catalina SPAR™, an FAA Part 25 transport-category amphibious aircraft platform for multi-mission operations worldwide. One platform, designed to operate from land and water alike, for transport, patrol, firefighting, rescue, and humanitarian missions.
The idea is simple and demanding: fly farther, land where traditional aircraft cannot, and let a single fleet do the work of many.
The original Catalina, the PBY flying boat of the 1930s and '40s, was among the most versatile aircraft ever built, patrolling oceans, rescuing downed aircrews, and carrying people and supplies where no runway could reach. We took the name deliberately.
The Catalina SPAR™ revives that aircraft's defining idea of going anywhere sky meets water and doing more with one platform, rebuilt on modern FAA Part 25 transport-category engineering. The same versatility that made the original iconic, re-engineered for the next century.
Demand for amphibious aircraft is accelerating, and the world's specialty fleets aren't keeping pace.
Longer, more intense fire seasons are driving global demand for aerial firefighting and water-scooping capability.
Expanding patrol, surveillance, and interdiction needs across vast coastal and open-ocean areas.
The world's amphibious and special-mission aircraft are retiring, with few modern replacements.
Many regions lack the runways and infrastructure that conventional aircraft require.
Chief Executive Officer
International aviation executive with experience in infrastructure and complex projects across emerging markets. Founder of Gossamer Crossing and Gossamer Air.
VP, Business Development
Strategic connector and business development executive in multiple industries including corporate law, institutional finance and capital formation, most recently in the yacht industry.
We operate as a networked company: small, accountable teams aligned on the mission, collaborating across disciplines rather than waiting on a chain of command. A few principles hold it together.
We tell the truth about what works, what doesn't, and what we don't yet know.
We treat hard questions and new evidence as fuel, not threats.
We build for the people who fly, operate, and depend on these aircraft.
We stay aligned on mission and principles, so we bend without breaking.
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