Consolidated PBY Catalina - Catalina Affair

Catalina Affair

The Catalina Affair is the name given to a Cold War incident in which a Swedish Air Force Catalina was shot down by Soviet fighters over the Baltic Sea in June 1952 while investigating the disappearance of a Swedish Douglas DC-3 (later found to have been shot down by a Soviet fighter while on a SIGINT mission; it was found in 2003 and raised 2004–2005).