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Originally Posted by Baz
This is at our local fly in/ car show at our local airport...the B24 is a Naval version with single tail plane build/used in WW2...it survived as a Forest Service AC dousing fires with retardant until my neighbor bought it.....he's nuts but fun.
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So It's a PB4Y (P4Y?) Privateer. The plane actually handled a lot better than the B-24 (2 small vertical tails) with the large single vertical tail.
Scroll down to plane 121 (on nose). That's the same plane in it's firefighting days. And a couple current pics.
http://www.air-and-space.com/P4Y-2%20Privateer%20Tankers.htm