List of surviving B-24 Liberators

List of surviving B-24 Liberators
Main article: B-24 Liberator
B-24M-20CO 44-51228
Dugan
Imperial War Museum - Duxford

Consolidated B-24 Survivors is a list of flying and static display B-24 Liberators and includes brief history, markings, owners, locations, and aircraft condition or status.

Contents

Background

By the time the last complete B-24M came off the Willow Run assembly line in July 1945, 18,482 Liberators had been built by the five B-24 manufacturers.

Post World War II

The B-24 was quickly declared obsolete by the USAAF and the remaining stateside aircraft were flown to desert storage in the US Southwest. In the Pacific theatre, many aircraft were simply parked, the oil drained from the engines and left for reclamation. By 1950, except for the one B-24D held for preservation, the vast fleet of Liberators were gone. The last flight of a B-24 by the USAF was on 12 May 1959 when Strawberry Bitch left Davis–Monthan Air Force Base for the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where it is now displayed.

Lend lease

While at the end of the war both the Royal Air Force as well as the Royal Australian Air Force were willing[citation needed] to continue operating the B-24, the terms of the Lend-Lease agreements stipulated that these aircraft had to be either paid for or returned to the US and vast graveyards of aircraft accumulated in India as well as Tarakan,and Australia.

Other countries needs

When India gained independence in 1947, 37 Liberators were resurrected and gave service until their retirement in 1968. It is from the Indian Air Force that the majority of the remaining B-24s owe their existence.

In 1948 when Israel was looking for aircraft, the Royal Australian Air Force was approached with the offer to purchase 25 aircraft, but since these aircraft had not been stored with long-term preservation in mind, they were neither airworthy nor economically feasible to restore to flyable condition. In 1968 the Indian Air Force donate HE-771, stored at Poonah, to ex-RCAF pilot Lynn Garrison for inclusion in his aircraft collection. It was to be ferried back to the United States in company with the B-24 giver to Strategic Air Command. Garrison was busy with Roger Corman's film Richthofen & Brown, in 1970, so he turned it over to the RAF. Somehow it ended up in Kermit Weeks' museum in Florida.

With the availability of intact, existing airframes beginning to diminish, the warbird movement since the late 1990s has been seeking out previously considered unrecoverable airframes for restoration. The RAAF has three airframes in storage (serials unknown) which were recovered when they restored their museum aircraft. Both India and China are reported to have additional recoverable aircraft and the jungles of the Southwest Pacific still hold abandoned aircraft.[1]

Survivors

Airworthy

United States

On display

Canada
India
  • B-24J (s/n 44-44213) is on display at the Indian Air Force Museum in Palam Air Base, New Delhi.[7]
Turkey
  • B-24D (s/n 41-24311) Hadley's Harem (nose only) is on display in Istanbul.[8]
United Kingdom
  • B-24M (s/n 44-51228) Dugan is on display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.[9]
  • B-24L (s/n 44-50206) Liberator B.VI formerly KN751 of the RAF and HE807 of the IAF. On display at the RAF Museum in RAF Hendon.[10]
United States

[17]

Under restoration

Australia
  • B-24M (s/n 44-41956) is under restoration by the Liberator Memorial Fund in Melbourne, Victoria.[19]
United States

Notes

  1. ^ John Hayles (8 February 2009). "World Wide Warbirds Contents Listing". Aeroflight (aeroflight.co.uk). http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/uk/warbirds_worldwide.htm. 
  2. ^ "Liberator/40-2366" FAA Registry. Retrieved: 13 May 2011.
  3. ^ "Liberator/44-44052" FAA Registry. Retrieved: 13 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Liberator/44-44272" FAA Registry. Retrieved: 13 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Liberator/44-50154" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  6. ^ Liberator III/G.R.V for RAF
  7. ^ "Liberator/44-44213" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  8. ^ "Liberator/41-24311" John Weeks Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  9. ^ "Liberator/44-51228" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  10. ^ "Liberator/44-50206" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  11. ^ "Liberator/41-11825" John Weeks Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  12. ^ "Liberator/42-40557 Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  13. ^ "Liberator/42-40461" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  14. ^ "Liberator/42-72843" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  15. ^ "Liberator/44-41916" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  16. ^ "Liberator/44-44175" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  17. ^ "Liberator/44-44213" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  18. ^ "Liberator/44-48781" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  19. ^ "Liberator/44-41956" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.
  20. ^ "Liberator/41-23908" Warbirds Resource Group Retrieved: 24 August 2010.

References

External links

v · d · eLists relating to aviation
General
Aircraft (manufacturers) · Aircraft engines (manufacturers) · Airlines (defunct) · Airports · Civil authorities · Museums · Registration prefixes · Rotorcraft (manufacturers) · Timeline
Military
Accidents/incidents
Records

Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • List of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War characters — This is a list of characters in Relic s Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series of video games. Contents 1 Space Marines 1.1 Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos 1.2 Librarian Isador Akios 1.3 …   Wikipedia

  • List of Redwall characters — There are many characters that have appeared in the Redwall series, including the books and television series written by Nick Danby. Contents 1 Characters in Redwall 1.1 Asmodeus Poisonteeth 1.2 Basil Stag Hare 1.3 …   Wikipedia

  • List of military units of Clark Air Base — For a detailed chronological history, see the article History of Clark Air Base. Military units of Clark Air Base consisted primarily of United States Army and United States Air Force organizations. Contents 1 Major commands 2 Major units… …   Wikipedia

  • World War I — This article is about the major war of 1914–1918. For other uses, see World War One (disambiguation) and Great War (disambiguation). World War I …   Wikipedia

  • ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …   Universalium

  • MEMORY — holocaust literature in european languages historiography of the holocaust holocaust studies Documentation, Education, and Resource Centers memorials and monuments museums film survivor testimonies Holocaust Literature in European Languages The… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • B-24 Liberator — Infobox Aircraft name= B 24 Liberator type= Heavy bomber manufacturer= Consolidated Aircraft caption= U.S. Army Air Forces Consolidated B 24D Liberator over Maxwell Field, Alabama. designer= Isaac M. Laddon first flight= 29 December 1939… …   Wikipedia

  • Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II) — Infobox Military Unit unit name=Jagdgeschwader 1 caption=New Emblem of Jagdgeschwader 1 introduced by Walter Oesau. dates=1939 1945 country=Germany allegiance= branch=Air Force type=Fighter Aircraft role=Air superiority size=Air Force Wing… …   Wikipedia

  • Vought F4U Corsair — F4U Corsair An F4U 5NL, previously of the Honduran Air Force, at the Geneseo Airshow, with air intercept radar pod on right wing Role …   Wikipedia

  • Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”