Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf

The Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf was a torpedo bomber designed by Vought and manufactured by Consolidated Aircraft for the United States Navy. Vought designed it as the XTBU-1 Sea Wolf to meet a 1939 requirement to replace the TBD Devastator, in competition with the Grumman TBF Avenger, and the prototype flew two weeks after Pearl Harbor. Because Vought was committed to producing the F4U, production passed to Consolidated-Vultee at a new factory, which delayed it further. Although the Navy ordered 1,100 aircraft, only 180 TBY-2s were completed before the order was cancelled shortly after the surrender of Japan, and a separate order for 600 TBY-3s was also ended. The Sea Wolf never flew combat missions, served only a few years with a reserve unit and was withdrawn in the late 1940s.