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Serial #: AM927 Construction #: 18 Civilian Registration: NL24927 N1503 XC-CAY N12905 N24927 |
Model(s): B-24A Liberator Mark I LB-30A RLB-30 Name: Diamond Lil Status: Airworthy Last info: 2012 |
Damaged in Canada, not delivered to RAF, 1941.
Consolidated Vultee Corp, San Diego, CA, 1941-1947.
- Registered as NL24927, April 1, 1947.
Continental Can Co, Morristown, NJ, Nov. 1948-1959.
- Registered as N1503.
Petroleos Mexicanos - PEMEX, Apr. 11, 1959-1967.
- Registered as XC-CAY, November 1959.
Confederate Air Force, Harlingen TX, 1967-1990.
- Registered as N12905.
- Delivered from Mexico.
- Flew as Diamond Lil.
Commemorative Air Force, Midland, TX, October 1990-2012.
- Registered as N24927, 1990.
- Operated by the CAF B-29/B-24 Squadron.
- Flew as Diamond Lil.
- Conversion back to B-24A begun, Winter 2006-08.
-- Follow this conversion on the Warbird Information Exchange.
- Flown as Ol 927, May 2007.
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Pat Carry. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. |
Photo Source(s): Roling, Nigel - Pentavia Digital Imaging, 2002 Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group Timothy Cox Collection. John Hume Research Assistance: - |
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