PRIVATEER on parade

The world’s only airworthy Consolidated PB4Y-2 PB4Y PRIVATEER 4Y-2 LLC’s very fine PB4Y-2 Privateer, BuNo 66302/N2871G. The aircraft was photographed over Lake Pleasance, north-east of Phoenix, Arizona. The preserved Privateer retains the Wright R-2600-35 Cyclone engines installed for fire-fighting service. What couldn’t the Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer do? Patrol bomber, attack aircraft, hurricane and submarine hunter, Bat anti-shipping glide bomb controller, weather reconnaissance, search and rescue, electronic warfare, intelligence-gatherer and fire-bomber — all jobs the PB4Y performed. Now, thanks to a