Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer

The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer is an American World War II and Korean War era patrol bomber of the United States Navy derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy had flown B-24s with minor changes as the PB4Y-1, and Consolidated developed a fully navalized long-range patrol bomber that flew in September 1943, with production versions arriving in March 1944. The fuselage was longer than the Liberator to fit a flight engineer station, and it had a tall single vertical stabilizer instead of the twin tail. Patrol Bomber Squadrons 118 and 119 were the first fleet squadrons to equip with it in early 1944. The type was redesignated P4Y-2 in 1951 and the remaining drone conversions became QP-4B in 1962. Navy examples were retired by 1954, and unarmed ones flew with the Coast Guard until 1958.