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N6813D ¦ YIP 05.09.1998

            Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (c/n ?)
Yankee Air Museum
Detroit-Willow Run (YIP/KYIP)
05 September 1998

This Privateer was one of over 700 of the type built, and was delivered to the US Navy as BuAer 59876 in August 1945. It flew various missions in the Patrol Bombing and Weather Reconnaissance rôles before being converted to Search and Rescue configuration for use by the US Coast Guard in 1953. It was retired in 1954, and sold to the civil market as N6813D in late 1957.

Between 1957 and 1969 it flew with various US operators. In 1969 it was acquired by Hawkins & Powers and converted to a fire bomber. In August 1975 it was heavily damaged during a forced and very hard landing at Port Hardy, BC, after runnig out of fuel on a ferry flight from Alaska to Wyoming. Given to a Canadian aircaft museum, which was unable to transport the aircraft away, it stayed at Port Hardy, and at the end was in a heavily vandalized condition.

In 1986 the Privateer was donated to the Yankee Air Museum, cut up into pieces, and trucked to Detroit, where it was restored to static display in the original Coast Guard configuration. Still registered as N6813D, it was seen on open-air display at the Yankee Museum, in fairly well condition, given the fact that the aircraft was once a write-off, and already more than 50 years old at that time.

Marks N6813D were cancelled in early 2013, after the Privateer was damaged during a massive hangar fire in 2004. It was moved to the Willow Run hangar where Ford once produced its earlier sibling, the B-24 Liberator, and has been undergoing thorough restoration ever since. In 2024 all four engines were installed again, and while there is still a lot to be achieved, the hope is there that this fantastic aircraft will eventually be on display again at what is now the Michigan Flight Museum.
   

Taken in: United States / Michigan / Van Buren Township / Denton (show map)

Taken on: September 5, 1998

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