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LIBERATOR/42-40461



Serial #: 42-40461
Construction #: 1538
Civilian Registration:
  None
  Model(s):
  B-24D Liberator
  GR Mk. V
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2004

History:
Delivered to RAF as BZ734.
Delivered to RCAF as 559.
- BOC: May 29, 1943.
- SOC: May 31, 1945.
David Tallichet/Yesterdays Air Force, Chino, CA, 1972-1991.
- Recovered from farm in Alberta, Canada, 1972.
- Arrived dissasembled by train, Feb. 1972.
-- Badly damaged in transit.
- Broken up with only the nose being kept.
- Nose displayed as T1, USAFM, March AFB, CA, 1985-1988.
Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, VA, 1991-2004.



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.
Photo Source(s):
Chris Guthomson - Virginia Air and Space Center.

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