R2Y Liberator Liner | |
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General information | |
Type | Prototype military transport aircraft and Prototype cargo aircraft |
Manufacturer | Consolidated Aircraft |
Status | Experimental |
Primary users | United States Navy |
Number built | 1 |
History | |
First flight | 15 April 1944 |
Developed from | Consolidated B-24 Liberator |
The Consolidated R2Y "Liberator Liner" (Consolidated Model 39) was an airliner derivative of the B-24 Liberator built for the United States Navy by Consolidated Aircraft.
The XR2Y-1, as the single prototype was known in Navy service, used the high-aspect wing and tricycle landing gear of the Liberator. The fuselage was an entirely new design, and the vertical stabilizer was taken from the PB4Y Privateer. [1] The final design looked much like a smaller, high-wing Boeing B-29 Superfortress, but with windows for passengers.
The aircraft was meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases, but after a brief evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and leased to American Airlines as a freighter with the name "City of Salinas". [2]
Data from Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II [1]
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