PB4Y-2 chopped wreck in a lot

Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:34 pm

How did a PB4Y-2 end up with a standard greenhouse and no forward turret? Was it made that way? :?:

Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:41 pm

Edward Sheetmetalhands wrote:How did a PB4Y-2 end up with a standard greenhouse and no forward turret? Was it made that way?

Reconfigured to a P4Y-2M for Hurricane duty or for the Coast Guard

Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:46 pm

Oh yes: around '74 this was in AC's "Warbird Report" under the heading "I Can't Believe It" (although it was referred to as a B-24D). Good ol' Buster had his breakfast nook built into the cockpit, and had intended to reattach one wing as a carport :lol:

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Sure would be cool to have a house like that, but nowadays you have to make do with a C-97...

Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:48 pm

Chris Brame wrote:Oh yes: around '74 this was in AC's "Warbird Report" under the heading "I Can't Believe It" (although it was referred to as a B-24D). Good ol' Buster had his breakfast nook built into the cockpit, and had intended to reattach one wing as a carport .

Sure would be cool to have a house like that, but nowadays you have to make do with a C-97...

How many more aircraft are sitting in the swamps as a house or bait shop? :lol:

Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:52 am

Alan...
I have your book.
Nice piece of work combining the AC deatils and operational use.

Well done, I enjoyed it.

Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:36 am

JBoyle wrote:Alan...
I have your book.
Nice piece of work combining the AC deatils and operational use.

Well done, I enjoyed it.

Thank you

Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:46 pm

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

Intended to be used in rebuild of B-24D hulk from Canada,
but Canada refused to export the B-24.

Uhhhhh....What B-24D hulk?

Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:55 pm

Tom Reilly had located a wreaked B-24 with a good wing in Canada and was trying to get permission to export it to the U.S. Something didn't work out right (I don't know the details) But in the end Canada said no, so he got rid of the PB4Y.
Jerry

Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:25 pm

Another potential B-24 to fly.... dashed. :cry:

Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:31 pm

Jerry O'Neill wrote:Tom Reilly had located a wreaked B-24 with a good wing in Canada and was trying to get permission to export it to the U.S. Something didn't work out right (I don't know the details) But in the end Canada said no, so he got rid of the PB4Y.
Jerry

So what's the status on the wreck in Canada?

Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:52 pm

Sitting in crates rotting away..................

Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:23 am

Matt Gunsch wrote:Sitting in crates rotting away..................

Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:59 am

b747cf wrote: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

Wasn't the XA-26F part of the Lindsay Hopkins Vocational School in Miami? Did that become the George T. Baker school at some time? And, is he related to George H. Baker as in Sea Fury #71 "Sky Fury"?

T J

Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:57 am

Alan, I've been wanting your 3 books on the subject for quite awhile. Didn't realize you were that particular author. Very cool.

Oh, and my father in law is a real estate agent. I'll have him contact you in regards to that Dominator.

Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:23 pm

TJ, George t. Baker was the owner of National Airlines. They moved the aviation school from Lindsey to the old National Airline maintenance base at Miami International. We received a Eastern Airlines DC-7 to replace the PB4Y-2 we also got the Jet engines off a P2V that was located at Opa locka.
Their were a number of interesting planes next to the school. The National L-188's were parked south of the school east of the school were two C-82's and a Eastern L-1049. Next to that was an outfit that rebuilt C-46's.

Mark