PB4Y-2 chopped wreck in a lot

[ACarey]

This photo was taken in FL during the mid-1980s. No other info on it. Looks like a former Coast Guard P4Y-2

[Matt Gunsch]

That is the one that Tom Riely owed, it was used as a home out in the swamp. I believe most of it was used in the Hill AFB B-24 restoration.

[ACarey]

That is the one that Tom Riely owed, it was used as a home out in the swamp. I believe most of it was used in the Hill AFB B-24 restoration.

I did not know that. I used this photo in my book about the Privateer.

[Matt Gunsch]

I think it is this one
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b24regis ... 59932.html

[ACarey]

I think it is this one
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b24regis ... 59932.html

That must be the one.

[Django]

You guys got my hopes up that someone found gold!

[ACarey]

You guys got my hopes up that someone found gold!

Well, if truth be told, I'm presently living inside a B-32 in the Okefenokee Swamp. My grandpappy bought it 1946 since it was cheaper than an Airstream. I was hoping the Privateer was still around so I could add a bedroom.

[Jerry O'Neill]

I always find it funny how photos from the past surface and those who may have not been familiar with the history of the subject get a little excited about the potential "find". For many of us and some of the new comers to WIX, it's a good thing because it shows where airframes have come from and where they are now.
Don't stop posting pics of suspect airframes, you never know who didn't know the back story.
Jerry

[ACarey]

I always find it funny how photos from the past surface and those who may have not been familiar with the history of the subject get a little excited about the potential "find". For many of us and some of the new comers to WIX, it's a good thing because it shows where airframes have come from and where they are now.
Don't stop posting pics of suspect airframes, you never know who didn't know the back story.
Jerry

Two things I wish I could have taken pictures of: 1975 when I was a kid with my parents and on some "shortcut" my dad took we drove by an old house with aircraft and rusting armored vehicles sitting in the yard. Second, in 1995 seeing another beatup house in TX coming back from the Frio River with a Neptune and other pieces of aircraft sitting in the yard.

[Matt Gunsch]

That is the one that Tom Riely owed, it was used as a home out in the swamp. I believe most of it was used in the Hill AFB B-24 restoration.

I did not know that. I used this photo in my book about the Privateer.

Which book did you write ?

[Pooner]

Yes, this is the Hill airplane.

I have the BuNo from this somewhere... but it was used along with the Alaskan B-24 D pieces and items from PB4Y-2 BuNo. 59905 several years ago.

Jay Wisler can be credited with seeing this one and deciding it was worthy of a restoration project for someone out there.

Yeah, Jay!

- R

[ACarey]

That is the one that Tom Riely owed, it was used as a home out in the swamp. I believe most of it was used in the Hill AFB B-24 restoration.

I did not know that. I used this photo in my book about the Privateer.

Which book did you write ?

One of them is: Consolidated-Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer: The Operational History Of The U.S. Navy's World War II Patrol/Bomber Aircraft

[Matt Gunsch]

Alan, my copy of your book is in the trunk of my Goldwing right now, I pulled it off the shelf and was going thru it.

[ACarey]

Alan, my copy of your book is in the trunk of my Goldwing right now, I pulled it off the shelf and was going thru it.

It turned out pretty well just wish I could have added profiles.

[b747cf]

This is the PB4Y-2 That was at Gerorge T. Baker Aviation school The Bu.No. is 59932. I helped pull it apart in 1970 as it was declared surplus by the school it was sold to a person who used it as a shed in the Everglades. We also had to take apart the A-26 we had this one was the XA-26F which had the Jet engine in the tail.



Mark