[5][6] The Catalina features a strut-braced high-wing, a three-seat enclosed cabin, retractable conventional landing gear, a boat hull and a single engine in pusher configuration.

[7] The original engine used was the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 twin cylinder two stroke powerplant.

[2] In December 2013 eleven examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

[13] One builder, Rod Snider, of Boise, Idaho, wrote, "I completed the land version of the Avid Amphibian in January of 1987.

It is really a superb plane for sightseeing and flying slow and camping in back country airstrips.