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Bureau #: 59819 Construction #: Unknown Civilian Registration: N3739G |
Model(s): PB4Y-2 Privateer P4Y-2 Privateer Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2013 |
History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy as Bu. 59819, 19??.
Carson Shade/Flight Enterprises Inc, Prescott, AZ, 1960-1964.
- Registered as N3739G.
Sergio A. Tomassoni/SS&T Aerial Contractors, Phoenix, AZ, circa 1965-1973.
- Purchased as stripped airframe, Prescott, AZ.
- Fitted with Wright R-2600 Cyclone Engines
- Fitted with nose from B-24D from a Tucson junkyard.
- Completed as a tanker.
- Flew as #C30.
Sergio A. Tomassoni/Air Tankers Inc, Buckeye, AZ, 1970s.
- Flew as tanker #C30.
Sergio A. Tomassoni/T&G Aviation, Buckeye, AZ, 1977-1990.
- Later based in Chandler, AZ.
- Flew as taker #30.
Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX, January 17, 1991-2013.
- Under restoration to military configuration.
- Fitted with nose and top turret as well as side blisters.
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013. |
Photo Source(s): Kent Horton Ron Olsen - Ron's Archive Brian Lockett - Goleta Air & Space Museum Research Assistance: - |
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