Consolidated Liberator Mark I, AM261 ...

[Mark Allen M]

Consolidated Liberator Mark I, AM261, of Ferry Command, prepares to taxi at Prestwick, Scotland, with the Duke of Kent on board, bound for Canada. This was the first occasion on which a member of the Royal Family crossed the Atlantic by aircraft.


This is an image from the Imperial War Museum Collection. ROYAL AIR FORCE FERRY COMMAND, 1941-1943.

Related photos.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item ... /205196572

[mike furline]

AM261 (front) and AM262, AM???. 03-01-1941 https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20048858

Shot of three huge Consolidated Aircraft Corporation bombers at Municipal Airport. These are of the same type of plane that will be turned out at the new bomber assembly plant being built near Lake Worth. A large crowd of people are standing around the bombers.

[bdk]

I see Lake Worth as associated with Carswell AFB near Ft. Worth Texas.

[lucky52]

Did the Brits ever make transports out of their four engine bombers?

[airnutz]

Did the Brits ever make transports out of their four engine bombers?

The Avro Lancastrian from the Lancaster and the Avro Lincolnian from the Lincoln are two that come to mind.

[Archer]

The Avro York was also based on the Lancaster but used a new fuselage. The Handley Page Halifax became the Halton when civilianised.

[Paul Stroud]

There was a post-war airline conversion of the Halifax called the Halton, and surplus Halifaxes were used by civilian operators during the Berlin Airlift.

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_halifax_mkVIII.html

[Mark Sampson]

Hmmm. no passenger windows... I suspect that it was not a comfortable ride.
"No thank you, I'll wait for a seat on the Pan Am Clipper."