CONTENTS AOPA PILOT August 2014 | Volume 57 | Number 8 | www.aopa.org/pilot FEATURES 84 Stand Up and Salute Downed airmen owe their lives to the PBY. By Barry Schiff 74 Soul-Stirring Airplane The Carbon Cub on floats shines at the Greenville, Maine, splash-in. By Dave Hirschman 92 Big City Seaplanes Manhattan's nearly secret seaplane base. By Jamie Beckett 98 Tall Tale That's True Rare warbirds will be for sale at Connie Edwards' Texas ranch. By Dave Hirschman 108 Airlift Provides Lift Cessna Citations deliver Special Olympians to their games. By Julie Summers Walker ON THIS PAGE: The Consolidated PBY flies over California's Catalina Island. Photography by Mike Fizer. CELEBRATING SEAPLANES Look for stories with this symbol. www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 1http://www.aopa.org/pilot http://www.aopa.org/pilot