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	Consolidated Aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet.
		The most prolific of the Consolidated patrol boats was the PBY Catalina, which was produced throughout World War II and used extensively by the Allies.
		Consolidated Aircraft and later Convair had their headquarters situated in San Diego, California on the border of Lindbergh Field (KSAN).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consolidated_Aircraft_Corporation (200 words)

	Vultee Aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vultee Aircraft Corporation became an independent company in 1939 and had limited success before merging with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1943 to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, or Convair.
		AMC was liquidated on January 1, 1936 and Vultee Aircraft Division was formed as an autonomous subsidiary of AVCO.
		Vultee Aircraft was created in November 1939, when Vultee Aircraft Division of AVCO was reorganized as an independent company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vultee_Aircraft (581 words)

	Consolidated Aircraft
		The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923 in Buffalo, New York.
		Consolidated was well known for its flying boats of the 1920's and 30's culminating in the PBY Catalina and PB2Y Coronado.
		Consolidated Aircraft was acquired by Vultee in 1943 forming Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft--abbreviated Convair.
	www.shanaberger.com /consolidated.htm (112 words)

	Vultee Aircraft
		Vultee Aircraft started life in 1932 building fast executive transports and attack bombers.
		Vultee acquired Consolidated Aircraft in 1943, but as the chosen name for the new company (Consolidated-Vultee) was soon abbreviated to Convair, the name Vultee soon disappeared from the aviation scene.
		1943: Vultee acquires Consolidated to form Consolidated-Vultee (Convair).
	www.shanaberger.com /vultee.htm (120 words)

	Aero: Consolidated_Vultee
		Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation was formed in March 1943 with the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft corporations.
		Consolidated also built the Fleetster, an eight-seat all-metal transport with a NACA cowling, one of the most popular light civil aircraft, in 1932.
		Vultee Aircraft, Inc. was created in November 1939, when Vultee Aircraft Division of AVCO was reorganized as an independent company.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Consolidated_Vultee/Aero33.htm (1697 words)

	Convair
		Vultee Aircraft acquired a 34% stake in Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1941 and the two companies merged as Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, subsidiary of Avco, on March 17, 1943.
		The numbering used by Consolidated Vultee (Convair) was a mixture of both companies, continuation from 36 in the Consolidated system and from 100 up in the Vultee system.
		Consolidated Vultee was renamed Convair Division of General Dynamics Corporation with main plants at San Diego and Fort Worth.
	1000aircraftphotos.com /HistoryBriefs/Convair.htm (638 words)

	Vultee BT-13 Valiant World War II basic trainer aircraft
		Vultee then developed the V-74 trainer to meet this requirement having a cantilever low-wing with fixed landing gear, dual controls and flight instruments as standard equipment.
		The Valiant was also known as the "Vultee Vibrator", nicknamed from its pilots, due to the fact that it had a tendency at low engine rpm to shake and rattle the canopy as it approached it's stall speed.
		Even the visionary Vultee, who had been killed with his wife in a plane crash in 1938, could not have foreseen the colorful and history-making future awaiting his unpretentious little plant.
	www.b25.net /bt13/bt13.html (834 words)

	Consair sold to Vultee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Formal confirmation of reports that the comparatively small Vultee Aircraft Inc., of Downey plans to take control of the huge Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of San Diego was given yesterday afternoon in a joint statement by the companies.
		The present negotiations are between Vultee and Maj. Fleet as an Individual and not with Consolidated as a corporation.
		He said Vultee was purchasing the 348,822 shares of Consair stock owned by Maj. Fleet and an undisclosed number of shares held by other members of the Fleet family..
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Text/consair-sold.html (844 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Vultee Aircraft Corporation purchased the Stinson Division in 1940 and moved headquarters to Downey, California.
		A new company, Consolidated Vultee, resulted from the merger of Consolidated and Vultee in 1943.
		Stinson remained in Wayne, Mich as the Stinson Division of Consolidated Vultee.
	www.stinsonflyer.com /avtext/stn-prd.txt (770 words)

	Vultee Era [Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center]
		Three new models in addition to the attack bomber were being produced by 1940: the Vultee Valiant Basic Trainer; the Valiant 51, a basic combat aircraft; and the Vanguard pursuit-interceptor.
		Vultee Aircraft was an innovator in the area of manufacturing as well as aviation design.
		In 1942 Vultee bought operating control of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation of San Diego and became Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (Convair).
	www.columbiaspacescience.org /downey/vultee.htm (338 words)

	Vultee Aviation, Gerard Vultee, E.L. Cord, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, Vultee V1A
		In November 1937, Vultee was reorganized as the Vultee Aircraft Division of the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation; this was the first time that a company was named Vultee.
		In 1939, Stinson Aircraft became a division of Vultee and on 14 November 1939, Vultee Aircraft, Incorporated was established to acquire the assets of the Aviation Manufacturing Company making Vultee a subsidiary of the parent company, the Aviation Company.
		The Vultee Aircraft Corporation was very largely the brainchild of Gerard Freebairn Vultee, formerly chief engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation during the period that Lockheed was owned by the Detroit Aircraft holding company.
	www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.org /page10.html (738 words)

	Nashville plant produced several important 'warbirds' in WWII - Wednesday, 02/04/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Consolidated Vultee was the name of the plant here that produced some of the twin-engine P-38 fighters.
		Vultee was better known for the single-engine Vengeance dive-bomber.
		Vultee even had plenty of its own versions of ''Rosie the Riveter.'' With men away at war, women were welcomed into the Nashville work force for the first time in large numbers.
	www.tennessean.com /learn-nashville/archives/04/02/46440772.shtml?Element_ID=46440772 (684 words)

	Warbird Alley: Vultee BT-13 Valiant
		With retractable landing gear and a powerful engine, the Vultee V-54 basic combat trainer was too lavish for the cash-strapped United States Army Air Corps of 1938.
		The Vultee BT-13 had a continuous canopy with its crew of two sitting in tandem behind dual controls.
		It was also equipped with blind flying instruments to teach new pilots the basics of flying at night or in foul weather.
	www.warbirdalley.com /bt13.htm (368 words)

	Consolidated PBY
		The United States Coast Guard first commissioned the Consolidated Catalina flying-boat in March 1941, and, by the end of the war, was still operating 114 Catalinas.
		The Consolidated Model 28, designated XP3Y-1, became the most famous and most produced flying boat over the ten years it was built.
		The outset of WWII saw additional contracts placed with Consolidated, including 782 PBY-5As, constructed in New Orleans and several factories in Canada.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBAIRCRAFT/AC_Consolidated_PBY.html (974 words)

	Convair PB4Y-2 Privateer
		Work on a B-24 variant that was better suited to the Navy's requirements began on May 3, 1943, when Consolidated/Vultee was instructed to allocate three PB4Y-1s for conversion into a more advanced patrol aircraft designated XPB4Y-2.
		The company designation of Model 40 was initially applied to the project, but the project was eventually assigned the new model number 100 in the old Vultee series.
		In early 1942, Consolidated had demonstrated in wind tunnel tests that the Liberator would be more stable if the twin fins and rudders were replaced by a single tail fin and rudder.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b24_38.html (2428 words)

	Westin's Consolidated/Convair/General Dynamics Photo Page
		The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado featured here, although possibly the least known American 4 engine flying boat, was also the most produced American 4 engine flying boat with 217 examples built.
		Toward the end of World War II Consolidated used the wings of a B-24, the tail of a PB4Y-2 Privateer, and built an entirely new fuselage to create this special built freighter.
		A second inflight view of the Consolidated Vultee XB46 Bomber.
	www.stinsonflyer.com /sf-99.htm (1212 words)

	Lockheed PBO Hudson, Lockheed R4O Super Electra, by Jack McKillop
		Gerard F. Vultee, for whom the Vultee Aircraft was named, had worked as an engineer at Douglas Aircraft and Lockheed Aircraft before becoming Lockheed's chief engineer in 1928.
		While at Lockheed, Vultee designed the Lockheed 8 Sirius for Charles and Anne Lindbergh and began design work on a single-engined transport but the Stock Market Crash of 1929 had placed Lockheed in financial trouble and it could not afford to build this new aircraft.
		In 1939, Vultee had begun a design effort on a pursuit aircraft and three training aircraft; one of these trainers was the Model 54.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/snv_valiant.htm (1362 words)

	Commemorative Air Force - Ohio Valley Wing
		The Marine Corps acquired 306 Convair (Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation) OY-1s during WW II for use as general liaison and light transport duties, artillery spotting and casualty evacuation in forward areas.
		The OY-1 originated as the Stinson V-76 and was adopted as the L-5 by the Army in 1942, after the Stinson Company became a division of Vultee Aircraft.
		By 1943, when USMC acquisition of the type began, Vultee had merged with Consolidated and the type designation bore the "Y" of Convair.
	www.cafohio.org /carinbellehistory.html (561 words)

	Consolidated B-24 Liberator - USA
		The two guns had a wider field of fire and the new turret, which was designed by the Consolidated Vultee Modification Center at Tucson permitted a saving of 200 lbs.
		A B-24M was the 6,725th and last Liberator built by Consolidated Vultee at San Diego.
		All bombing equipment and armament removed and six stations provided in the fuselage for the instruction of air engineers in powerplant operation, essentially for such aircraft as the Boeing B-29 and the Consolidated Vultee B-32, which are the first large combat aircraft in the USAAF to have separate completely equipped engineer's stations.
	www.aviation-history.com /consolidated/b24.html (1538 words)

	Aircraft: Vultee BT-13A Valiant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		16500.0 Ft The BT-13 was a basic trainer built by Consolidated Vultee Corp., Vultee Field, California.
		The museum's BT-13A, s/n 41-21487, was manufactured by Vultee Aviation, Downey, CA, and received by the USAAF on 28 Jun 1941.
		It was assigned to the Pilot School (Basic) at Cochran AAF, Macon GA. It was wrecked on 3 May 1943 and disposed as surplus on 25 Sep 1943 with 1553 airframe hours.
	www.marchfield.org /bt13a.htm (175 words)

	Vultee
		RA-31 (Model V-72) (Vultee, Northrop) 1941 = Export model; ff (as prototype V-85): 3/30/41 (p: Vance Breese) — produced with twin tails, but pilot Vance Breese refused to fly after finding dangerous tendencies during taxi tests, and it was quickly modified with a single tail — ff (as Vengeance I): 11/30/41 (p: Moye Stephens).
		Gerard Vultee, Vance Breese; ff: 2/19/33 (p: Marshall Headle).
		Vultee V-11 [NX14999] (Vultee via K O Eckland coll)
	www.aerofiles.com /_vult.html (1937 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Roadable Aircraft - Consolidated Vultee Model 111
		The Consolidated Vultee Model 111 was a side-by-side two seat all-metal low-wing cantilever roadable monoplane.
		The Model 111 was powered by an air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine in the rear fuselage, driving a three-blade fixed-pitch Hartzell airscrew immediately aft of cruciform tail surfaces.
		Consolidated Vultee's interest in the possibilities of roadable aircraft types continued, resulting in the Model 116, developed under the direction of Theodore P. Hall and flown in 1947.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /roadable/cv_111.php (117 words)

	Consolidated B-24J Liberator
		These were to be built in both the Fort Worth and the San Diego Consolidated factories.
		In order to make up the difference, Consolidated/San Diego (which had in the meantime merged with Vultee and was now known as Consolidated-Vultee, or Convair for short) was directed to adapt the Consolidated A-6A hydraulically-driven tail turret for installation on the production line in the nose of the B-24J Liberator.
		The Consolidated A-6A turret had sloped, flat transparent front panels as opposed to the smooth cylindrically-shaped transparent surfaces of the Emerson turret.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b24_18.html (2774 words)

	7th WING OPERATIONS HISTORY, 1946-1948
		On that date, the first Consolidated B-36 bomber in SAC, an "A" model, serial number 44-92015, was delivered to the wing in a ceremony and designated "City of Fort Worth".
		In preparation for the future delivery of the Consolidated B-36 "B" model, the wing made arrangements with the Consolidated Corporation, Convair Division, Fort Worth, Texas, to send three radar operators to their Electronic Laboratory for instruction on operations and maintenance of the APQ 24 Radar being installed in the "B" model.
		Five aircraft were at Consolidated Vultee plant, Fort Worth, Texas, (across the runway from Carswell) with one awaiting modification at Carswell.
	www.7bwb-36assn.org /b36genhistpg1.html (5818 words)

	Cavanaugh Flight Museum: SNV-2/BT-13 Vultee Valiant
		Designated the BT-13 by the Army Air Corps and the SNV-2 by the Navy, the Vultee Valiant was the next aircraft cadet pilots flew after learning to fly the PT-17 (Stearman), PT-19 or PT-22.
		Designed in the late 1930s, the SNV/BT-13 was chosen in 1939 by the U.S.A.A.C. and by the Navy in 1940 for use as a basic trainer.
		Once America was fully involved in World War II, Vultee received orders for more than 10,000 SNV/BT-13s, making the plane one of the most important American trainer aircraft of the war.
	www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com /Valiant.htm (419 words)

	Consolidated
		Consolidated PBY-5A post-war luxury conversion for entertainer Herb Shriner even had its own dory slung under the left wing [N68756] (K O Eckland)
		Consolidated B-24/17 Sometimes mistaken for B-41, this was a one-time 1943 experiment marrying the nose section of B-17G [42-97772] to B-24 [42-73130] in hopes of combining the qualities of both ships.
		Consolidated NY-1 Land and sea [A-7351, A-7205] (Consolidated)
	www.aerofiles.com /_conso.html (4698 words)

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: Convair XC-99
		Consolidated Vultee XC-99 on an early flight off the coast of Southern California.
		Because the Model 37 is derived from a new Consolidated design, all information on power plants is necessarily restricted at the present time.
		The former would seem impractical in the light of Consolidated's thin wing with maximum camber inadequate for accommodation of the Allison 3420, the only announced inline, which develops more than 2,500 hp.
	www.air-and-space.com /xc99.htm (1455 words)

	Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - Consolidated PBY Catalina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Consolidated P2Y and Martin P3M flying boats were the main aircraft in this category then and Consolidated Aircraft Corporation decided to start with the P2Y to create a new plane to tender.
		Consolidated PBYs were in service with not only the US Navy, by late 1939, the Soviet Union started producing their own version, the GST as well almost 200 US built planes.
		In December 1941 the merger of Consolidated Aircraft Corporation with Vultee Aircraft Incorporation started, although this was not to be finalised until March 1943.
	www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info /articles/catalina.htm (2926 words)

	HISTORY OF THE 7th BOMB GROUP/WING
		In March, it was announced that the wing would become the first unit in the Strategic Air Command to receive the new Consolidated B-36 "Peacemaker" bomber under development at Consolidated-Vultee Plant, Fort Worth.
		As June began, the wing sent crew members TDY to fly B-36 test fights with Consolidated Vultee crews.
		On that date, the first Consolidated B-36 bomber in SAC, an "A" model, serial number 44-92015, was delivered to the wing.
	www.7bwb-36assn.org /7THGpWghistory.html (1667 words)

	Martin PBM Mariner (D Llewellyn James)
		Much less famous than the Consolidated Vultee PBY Catalina and produced in smaller numbers,
		it was in fact considerably more advanced in its design, and significantly larger, than the Consolidated aircraft.
		The PBM to a large extent supplanted the older Consolidated PBY Catalina, at least in front-line service, towards 1945.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/compass/Mariner.htm (484 words)

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