Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer BuNo 66261, rebuilt from two airframes and displayed as BuNo 66304 ‘V514’ outdoors at the National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Florida: a four-engined long-range maritime patrol bomber developed from the B-24 Liberator, with a long fuselage, the slender high-aspect Davis wing spanning 33.5 m, four Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp radials in oval cowlings driving three-bladed propellers, a single tall fin and rudder, an Erco ball turret in the nose, teardrop waist blisters and a tricycle undercarriage, shown level on its wheels as displayed: sea blue on the top of the fuselage and nacelles, intermediate blue on the fuselage sides, fin and rudder, insignia white below, the star and bar with a blue outline under the flight deck, ‘V514’ in black behind it, ‘NAVY’ and ‘66304’ on the fin, and black propellers with yellow tips; the forward dorsal turret is missing as displayed, and the starboard side, which no photograph shows, mirrors the port (shape from the Bureau of Aeronautics three-view scaled to the published span and length, checked against a second three-view and photographs of this aircraft). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 356 models · download .glb (1.6 MB) · Plate 188 in The Hangar