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Description
| Manufacturer: | Consolidated | |
| Base model: | R2Y | |
| Designation: | R2Y | |
| Version: | -1 | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | |
| Designation Period: | 1931-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| Tor Welch Rocklin, CA |
This aircraft was a "airliner" version of the B-24 (wings engines and tricycle landing gear) and the PB4Y-2 (tall single tail}. Only the circular cross section fuselage was unique to this plane. It was offered to the Navy early in WWII, when the U.S. had virtually no long range / large capacity transport planes available. It offered both long range and satisfactory capacity. The only R2Y-1 was given BuNo 09803, (actually accepted as XR2Y-1). It was the single prototype accepted and flown by the U.S Navy. The other 523 BuNos listed above were simply "reserved"; in case the plane was eventually ordered in quantity. It wasn't, and the prototype was returned to Consolidated in the mid-40s. (It later was "loaned" to American Airlines as a dedicated air freighter. No others were ever built, as far as we can determine. 10/13/2006 @ 15:35 [ref: 14446] |
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