Consolidated PB2Y Images

At NAS Honolulu, Hawaii, with mechanics at work.

PB2Y "Coronado."

Naval officer passengers seated in the planes after section, January 1943. This aircraft was operated for the naval air transport service by Pan American airways.

Boarding passengers at Treasure Island, California, January 1943. This plane was operated for the naval air transport service by Pan American Airways. Note San Francisco Bay Bridge in background.

Loads cargo at the Pan American Airway dock, Treasure Island, California, January 1943. This naval air transport service plane was operated by Pan. Am. Note Marine Corps poster on railway express agency truck at left. San Francisco Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island are in the background.

Pan American Airways captain and first officer in the pilots' compartment, preparing for a trans-Pacific flight, January 1943. This plane was operated by Pan. AM. for the naval air transport service.

Air Evacuation of wounded men from the Philippines, circa Mid- 1945. Tractors and bathing-suit clad sailors haul the medical evacuation aircraft, a PB2Y-3 (Bu# 7187), out of the water after its flight from the Philippines. Taken at a Pacific base, where the wounded men are to be transferred to another plane for the last lap home.

Air Evacuation of wounded men from the Philippines, circa Mid- 1945 after their flight from the Philippines to a Pacific base, the wounded men are transferred from the PB2Y-3 (Bu# 7187) Medical Evacuation plane to ambulances. They will then board another plane for the last leg of the trip home.

A nearly completed PB2Y-3 patrol bomber parked under camouflage netting outside the plant building, July 1943. Photo by Jacobs.

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A circa 1942 photograph taken at the Consolidated Aircraft Plant at San Diego. The presidential party during a presidential tour moves under the huge wings of the Navy's PB2Y patrol bombers.

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At NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 5 September 1944.

At NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 18 January 1945.

At NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 5 September 1944.

Commander in Chief, Pacific, and Pacific Ocean Areas Arrives at Tokyo Bay in a PB2Y Coronado seaplane, 29 August 1945. USS Missouri (BB-63), Third Fleet Flagship, is in the center background. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

Burning, as it is shot down by a fleet air wing two (FAW-2) PB2Y-3 "Coronado" patrol bomber, in the Central Pacific. Photograph released 22 May 1944. The Japanese plane wears the number "72" on its tail fin.

The prototype XPB2Y-1 in 1938

PB2Y with Rocket Assisted Take-Off (RATO)

NATS PB2Y somewhere in the Pacific.