Aircraft
Catalina Aircraft To Design Flying Boat in Vero Beach
Facility will be shared with aerospace and technology start-ups
Catalina Spar flying boat rendering
© Catalina Aircraft

Amphibious aircraft developer Catalina Aircraft is building an Engineering and Technology Center (ETC) in Vero Beach, Florida, to house design activities for its clean-sheet airplane and to provide space for other aerospace and technology start-ups. 

The ETC will feature computer resources for digital-twin development and systems engineering, a scale wind tunnel, wave tank for hydrodynamic testing, and 3D printing and materials labs. Creating the ETC will shorten development cycles for the Catalina team and its Spar amphibious airplane and help tenants with their own programs, with facilities that would be too expensive for them to build separately.

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