a Civil Airfield to the establishment of the Number 4 Service Flying School (No. 4 SFTS) to fulfil part of Australia's commitment to the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS)." - p. 1. "The function of the school was to provide Intermediate and Advanced flying training for RAAF personnel who had completed their elementary flying training at both Perth and Cunderdin." - p. 3.

Gordon  Details of catalinas used in the Indian Ocean Service, and scuttled off Rottnest in 1945. Official newsletter of the Rottnest Voluntary Guides Association Incorporated, Feb. 1994 : 10-12

• Flying rat cats / David Muir.  2 p.
• Catalinas on the Swan River - Perth, 1942-1945 / Avis M. Koenig. [Perth] : A.M. Koenig, 1994. 16 p.

• Silent victory : breaking the Japanese air-blockade between Australia and Europe / Arthur Leebold.  Belconnen, A.C.T. : Banner Books, 1995 : 19-63. Chapter 4. The concept and the survey -- Chapter 5. A Cat or two but very little else -- Chapter 6. A very helpful neighbour: Patwing 10 -- Chapter 7. International air base in a swim bath -- Chapter 8. Some facilities at last -- Chapter 9. The Cocos contribution -- Chapter 10. Passenger profile

• Qantas Empire Airways (Western Operations Division) Indian Ocean Service, 1943-1946 / [by] Barry Pattison & Geoff Goodall.  Footscray, Vic. : Aviation Historical Society of Australia, 1979 : 3-41
• Black Cats : the real story of Australia's long range Catalina strike force in the Pacific War, Solomons to Singapore, Cairns to the coast of China / compiled by A.E. Minty. Point Cook, Vic. : RAAF Museum, [1994].             ?Beaufighter rescue / W.R. Mills : 222-228 -- Some more facts about catalinas / A.E. Minty : 233-245 
• Consolidated PBY Catalina -- Catalinas for Australia -- Catalina serving Australia --RAAF consolidated catalinas. In. Catalina, Neptune and Orion in Australian service / Stewart Wilson.  Weston Creek, A.C.T. : Aerospace Publications, 1991 : 12-66
• Australia in the war of 1939-1945. Series 3: Air. Volume 2. Air war against Japan, 1945 / by George Odgers. [Canberra] : [Australian War Memorial] 1968             Chapter 22. Minelaying by the Catalinas : 355-373 -- Chapter 24. First T.A.F. and North–Western Area, January–April 1945 : 391-409
• [Various anecdotes – memories of operations of catalinas in Geraldton / compiled by Doug Brenkley]
• Front-line airline : the war story of Qantas Empire Airways Limited / by E. Bennett-Bremner.  Sydney : Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1944 -- ch.9. Shuttle services : 79-93 -- ch. 10. Blitz on Broome : 94-104 -- ch. 11. Rescue : 105-109
• Consolidated PBY Catalina in Australian service / Stewart Wilson. Bungendore, N.S.W. : Notebook Publications, 2004 : 16-63
• Units of the Royal Australian Air Force : a concise history. Volume 4.  Maritime and transport units / compiled by the RAAF Historical Section. Canberra : AGPS Press, 1995 : 17-29; 77-83; 134-137; 153-161
• Navigator in the South Seas / written and illustrated by Brett Hilder.    London : P. Marshall, 1961 : 112-123
• Some notes from Bob Maitland’s diary
• Catalina chronicle : a history of RAAF operations / [by] David Vincent.[Paradise, S. Aust.] : D. Vincent, 1978.