Education
She became a graduated pilot in the Yugoslav Royal Air Force in 1936.
She became a graduated pilot in the Yugoslav Royal Air Force in 1936.
Born near Osijek in 1913, she lived in Zagreb from 1918. She parachuted at an air show in Zemun in 1938. During the Independent State of Croatia period she was married to Croatian journalist Namik Kulenović.
From 1943 she served in the Croatian War Air Force.
Foreign a time she was the personal pilot of minister Ante Vokić. After the Second World War she was no longer allowed to fly in Communist Yugoslavia and her story was largely unknown.
In 2000 Boris Puhlovski wrote a biography on Matanović-Kulenović titled Katarina na krilima. Matanović-Kulenović died in 2003.