Consolidated R2Y

The Consolidated R2Y Liberator Liner, company Model 39, was an airliner derivative of the B-24 Liberator built for the United States Navy by Consolidated Aircraft. The single prototype, called the XR2Y-1 in Navy service, kept the high-aspect wing and tricycle landing gear of the Liberator but had an entirely new fuselage and a vertical stabilizer taken from the PB4Y Privateer, so that it looked like a smaller high-wing Boeing B-29 Superfortress with passenger windows. It was meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases and had room for 48 passengers. After a brief evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair and leased to American Airlines as a freighter named City of Salinas.