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Consolidated Aircraft

Consolidated Aircraft
Public company
Predecessor Gallaudet Aircraft Company, Dayton-Wright Company
Successor Vultee Aircraft, Convair, General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas
Founded Buffalo, NY, United States, 1923
Founder Reuben H. Fleet
Defunct 1996
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Number of locations
San Diego, California, Fort Worth, Texas
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Reuben H. Fleet
Products

Consolidated PT-1 Trusty trainer (1923)
Consolidated NY trainer (1925)
Consolidated PT-3 trainer (1927)
Consolidated O-17 Courier (1927)
Consolidated Fleetster (1929)
Consolidated Commodore (1930)
Consolidated PT-11 (1931)
Consolidated XB2Y (1933)
Consolidated P-30, A-11, Y1P-25 (1934)
Consolidated P2Y Consolidated PBY Catalina (1936)
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado (1937)
Consolidated XPB3Y not built
Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor or "Model 31" (1939)
Consolidated B-24 Liberator (1939)
Consolidated XB-41 Liberator
Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator US Navy
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express
C-109 Liberator
Consolidated Liberator I
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (1944)
Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf (1941)
Consolidated B-32 Dominator (1942)

Consolidated R2Y (1944)

Consolidated PT-1 Trusty trainer (1923)
Consolidated NY trainer (1925)
Consolidated PT-3 trainer (1927)
Consolidated O-17 Courier (1927)
Consolidated Fleetster (1929)
Consolidated Commodore (1930)
Consolidated PT-11 (1931)
Consolidated XB2Y (1933)
Consolidated P-30, A-11, Y1P-25 (1934)
Consolidated P2Y Consolidated PBY Catalina (1936)
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado (1937)
Consolidated XPB3Y not built
Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor or "Model 31" (1939)
Consolidated B-24 Liberator (1939)
Consolidated XB-41 Liberator
Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator US Navy
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express
C-109 Liberator
Consolidated Liberator I
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (1944)
Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf (1941)
Consolidated B-32 Dominator (1942)

The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet in Buffalo, NY, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors. Consolidated became famous, during the 1920s and 1930s, for its line of flying boats. The most successful of the Consolidated patrol boats was the PBY Catalina, which was produced throughout World War II and used extensively by the Allies. Equally famous was the B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber which, like the Catalina, saw action in both the Pacific and European theaters.


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