#PB4Y Privateer

[lonestarflight]

"A radio controlled and unmanned Convair P4Y-2K Privateer taking off from the Chincoteague Naval Air Station at Wallops Island, Virginia. The airplane was sent over the Atlantic Ocean where it was used as a target for the RIM-2 Terrier missiles of USS MISSISSIPPI (AG-128)."

Date: March 23, 1955

Norfolk Public Library: smc_mss0000187_x000085_011

[usaac-official]

A PB4Y-2 of VP-120 in flight, likely during 1945.  The aircraft survived the war and is displayed at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona

[carbone14]

Bombardier de patrouille maritime Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (dérivé du B-24 Liberator) en vol au large de la côte Est d'Oahu – Hawaï – Etats-Unis – 1945

Photographe : US Navy

©National Museum of Naval Aviation

[captain-price-unofficially]

Consolidated Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer, Bu. No. 59602, in flight. The aft dorsal turret is aiming directly at the camera.

[usafphantom2]

Consolidated PB4Y Privateer's from VP-23 over Miami, Florida, July 1949, the PB4Y-2 in foreground is (Bu60006). by Ronnie Bell

[lobstersinmyhouse]

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE AIRCRAFT TELL US RN

Hmmmmmmm tough question. This is in no particular order.

Boeing 757-300

Consolidated PB4Y-2 privateer but specifically the firefighters

Grumman C-2 Greyhound

Vought F8U-1 and RF-8G Crusaders

Grumman S-2 Tracker series

Convair CV-880

Ryan lightning bug target drones. All of em.

NAA XB-70 Valkyrie

Buran OK-GLI Analog in-atmosphere test article

Northrop F-15 Reporter (two F-15s! Who knew!)

[itchytesticals]

PB4Y-1 Privateer 843 named “Boss Burton’s nitemare”

[airmanisr]

Stinson OY-2/L-5 Sentnel by Willard Womack Via Flickr: Working in the shade provided by a Navy Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer One Wildcat along with several Avengers in the background.

[duckduckg]

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.18 (after 1900)

1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time. 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf. 1942 – World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia. 1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. 1944 – World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort. 1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. 1966 – A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order. 1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California. 1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. 1982 – Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre. 1981 – A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four. 1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. 1992 – A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web. 1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300. 1994 – Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide. 1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee. 1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever. 1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1,200 soldiers. 2002 – A Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer crashes near Estes Park, Colorado, killing both crew members. 2012 – At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria. 2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed. 2019 – A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.

[lex-for-lexington]

“Japanese cargo ship grounded on Minto Reef, in the Pacific, as seen from a U.S. Navy PB4Y patrol bomber, circa early 1944. The ship's lower hull, aft of amidships, has been almost entirely pounded away by wave action. Photo released by CinCPac, April 1944.”

(NHHC: 80-G-221638)

[usaac-official]

A group of VP-9 PB4Y-2s in flight

[lonestarbattleship]

Convair PB4Y-2 (BU. no. 59351) parked at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, on July 11, 1944.

NHHC: NH 87982, NH 87983, NH 87984, NH 87985

[captain-price-unofficially]

BAT radar guided bombs under the wing of a PB4Y-2 Privateer, 12 December 1945

[usafphantom2]

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer N2871G

@ron_eisele via Twitter

[j-r-macready]

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer N2871G 1945 served with USN BuNo 66302 1950 Served with USCG by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer N2871G 1945 served with USN BuNo 66302 1950 Served with USCG Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer N2871G 1945 served with USN BuNo 66302 1950 Served with USCG Photo taken at Planes of Fame Airshow Chino California USA 2019 ADE_7809