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PB4Y-2 Privateer Model

Consolidated PB4Y Privateer Bomber Wood Model Airplane

$159.98

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PB4Y-2 Privateer Model

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Pilots and collectors of bomber planes shouldn’t miss the opportunity to get a PB4Y-2 Privateer display mahogany model.

Model Airplane: PB4Y-2 Privateer Patrol Bomber aircraft
Wingspan: 20"
Fuselage Length: 13.6"
Scale: 1/66
Material: mahogany wood
Manufacturer: Consolidated
Branch: United States Navy (USN)

Model Airplane Factory offers you this elegant PB4Y-2 Privateer display mahogany model made from mahogany wood. The process starts from carving the fuselage and the intakes on the fuselage sides to the PB4Y Privateer aircraft cruciform tail design, to the assembly of the whole replica, and finally the final polishing of the Consolidated PB4Y Privateer Bomber wood model airplane. The rich color paint scheme and markings of the P4Y Privateer bomber aircraft are cautiously painted to the assembled PB4Y-2 Privateer wood model.

The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer was a United States Navy patrol bomber derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Its primary users are the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard. The Navy had been using unmodified B-24s under the name PB4Y-1 Liberator, and the type was considered very successful. However, a fully navalized design was desired, and Consolidated developed a dedicated, long-range patrol bomber in 1943 — the PB4Y-2 Privateer. In 1951 the family was redesignated P4Y-2 Privateer.

The Privateer is outwardly quite similar to the Liberator. It is slightly longer, and has a tall single vertical tail rather than the B-24's twin tail configuration. Earlier, Ford (which produced B-24s for the U.S. Army Air Corps) had built an experimental variant – the B-24K – using the single tail of a B-23 Dragon. Handling was improved, and the Air Corps’ proposed B-24N production model was to be built by Ford; the orders, however, were cancelled May 31, 1945 and the B-24N never entered production. The Navy's desire for substantial redesigns, however, brought the new tail assembly within reason.