FAQ

Modern transportation needs flexible access to places where runways are unavailable, damaged, congested, politically constrained, or too costly to build. Amphibious aircraft can connect coastal, island, riverine, remote, and disaster-affected regions without relying exclusively on fixed airport infrastructure. That makes them valuable for missions such as wildfire response, humanitarian relief, maritime logistics, and contested operations, where speed, access, and flexibility matter. In an era of climate-driven disasters, fragile infrastructure, and increasing pressure on fixed bases and runways, amphibious transport aircraft provide a runway-independent capability that conventional aircraft cannot fully replace.

Amphibious aircraft did not disappear because the mission became irrelevant. After World War II, the market was flooded with surplus aircraft, engines, parts, runways, and trained crews that could be bought or repurposed for pennies on the dollar, making new amphibious transport programs difficult to justify. Defense spending also shifted toward carrier aviation, helicopters, and jets, pulling manufacturers toward the technologies militaries were actively buying. For decades, existing amphibious aircraft continued filling critical roles, but those fleets are now aging out. Today's shortage reflects a delayed consequence of that postwar manufacturing gap: the need never fully went away, but the industrial base to replenish it did.

To design and build an open-architecture, clean-sheet FAA Part 25 amphibious, twin-turboprop, multi-mission transport-category aircraft.

We are headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida. Catalina Aircraft Company is a Delaware corporation registered to do business in Florida.

No. We have no affiliations with any other aircraft company or program. Our aircraft is a clean-sheet design.

We organize around a Networked Company Model, with mission-driven alignment, digital coordination, cross-functional engineering pods, and community and industry engagement.

It lets us operate with speed and environmental sensitivity rather than centralized control, moving fast while staying aligned to our mission objectives.

Our culture rests on four pillars: honesty with stakeholders, curiosity over defensiveness, humane treatment of people, and resilience through coherence, keeping our identity under pressure.

Yes. We are actively recruiting engineers who are motivated by ambitious technical goals and who value deep technical engagement and clear expectations.

It depends on your inquiry. Engineers: recruitment@catalina-aircraft.com. Media: media@catalina-aircraft.com. Investors: invest@catalina-aircraft.com. Sales and end users: sales@catalina-aircraft.com or 912.416.4501.