AMtorg GST

[Azagtoth]

This is cry for help.I desperatley need  any resource, photos or data considering  GST  in Soviet service.Also, i found somewhere that they were used
for reconaissance  in Black sea  by the navy.Anything would be of help, because i only have few very murky photos.
Thanks!

[John Thompson]

What are you looking for, exactly? Searching with Google, using Amtorg GST, turns up a few things, but I'm guessing you tried that already. The GST was a licence-built Russian version of the Consolidated PBY-1 with Tumanskii radial engines (it says!), but I'm sure there must have been other differences. Unfortunately, even Gunston's "Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875 - 1995" doesn't have very much information on this aircraft. He does mention 2 - 3 UBT machine guns as armament, and provision for up to 3 tonnes of underwing stores.

Welcome to the forum, by the way!

John

[John Thompson]

How about this? Seems pretty detailed.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PBY/message/18863?var=1

Photo of engine cowling faces, etc.:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/125/consolidatedamtorggst02hi9.jpg/

Maybe try a search in Russian Cyrillic text?

John

[xan]

If spokito pass here he mounted one , he can have documentation...
I'm going to look for him!
Xan

[learstang]

How about this? Seems pretty detailed.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PBY/message/18863?var=1

Photo of engine cowling faces, etc.:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/125/consolidatedamtorggst02hi9.jpg/

Maybe try a search in Russian Cyrillic text?

John

That looks like a ShKAS in the nose turret.

Regards,

Jason

[Azagtoth]

Thanks a lot...this photo is new to me...and yes, i  turned google upside down to find anything.
Also  i cannot seem to find  if  "civilian" GSTs were used  in  patrol duty, or  were they pressed into
naval  arsenal...

[KL]

This is cry for help.I desperatley need  any resource, photos or data considering  GST  in Soviet service.

Two-part text about Soviet Catalinas by V. Kotelnikov appeared in the Model Aircraft Monthly magazine!  Recommended...  If you can't find those magazines I'll send you scans.


Volume 6, Issue 2 - February 2007
Soviet Catalinas
Part One: Catalinas from Taganrog
by Vladimir Kotelnikov
Describes the history and use of US and Soviet license-built Model 28 PBY-1 Catalinas in Soviet service, with colour profiles by Andrey Yurgenson


Volume 6, Issue 3 - March 2007
Soviet Catalinas
Part Two: Lend-Lease PBYs
by Vladimir Kotelnikov
Concludes his history and use of US and Soviet license-built Catalinas in Soviet service, with colour profiles by Andrey Yurgenson

Cheers,
KL

[KL]

Not GST, but interesting:

[-spokito-]

hello folks,
sorry but  i am very busy with the improving of my website this time.
fortunately xan make me awake !
so, GSTs.....
i' try to make a conversion from a PBY-5 but i stopped the idea . it is to difficult for me. the base should be the PBY-3.
there is a lot of photos here  http://fighters.forumactif.com/t38172-catalina-gst-1-48-abandon
and explanations ...in french , but google translate will help you, i'm sure.
have fun, this is a great subject !
bye