Consolidated PB2Y Coronado

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Consolidated PB2Y-5R Coronado BuNo 7099, the only surviving Coronado, the flag transport that carried Fleet Admiral Nimitz’s staff west for the Japanese surrender in 1945 and was later owned by Howard Hughes, displayed at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida: the US Navy’s big four-engined patrol flying boat with four Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp radials, a deep two-step hull, a high wing whose floats retract to form the wing tips, and twin oval fins on a dihedral tailplane, its turrets removed and faired over as a transport: glossy dark sea blue above with white undersides rising in an arch on the bow, 1943–47 star-and-bar insignia on the bow and wings, a Fleet Admiral’s five-star plate below the cockpit, ‘PB2Y-5R’ and ‘7099’ on the fins and ‘NAVY’ on the rudders, with the port bow cargo door open, as photographed at Pensacola (no Coronado is preserved in a UK museum; shape from the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics PB2Y-5R three-view checked against photographs; the display pedestals are not modelled). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 319 models · download .glb (1.9 MB) · Plate 116 in The Hangar