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13 photos tagged consolidatedc87, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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2012

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Convair/General Dynamics Plant and Personnel from SDASM Archives uploaded October 2012
Colonel Orie W. Coyle Special Collection Photo from SDASM Archives uploaded October 2012
Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Consolidated transport planes being loaded, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Lowering an engine in place in assembling a C-87 transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
A C-87 transport plane, just off the assembly line, at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation field, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Assembling Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008

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Consolidated transport planes being loaded, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Fred Roessler said:
C-87 transports. Developed from the B-24.

Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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northf6f said:
Transport would be a LB-30 or a B-24 bomber
Mitchel25J (69 plus million Views Thank You ) said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Consolidated Aircraft, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Gaz West said:
Hi, I'm Gaz, im admin for a group called On a wing and a prayer, and we'd love to have this added to the group! Feel free to join and add as many pics as you like
reyfocus said:

Jean Dieuzaide – Concorde Essai de Freinge - 1968

Hi,
I'am the admin of the new group Art'flighing Machines dedicated to an artistic approach of flighing things

It would be an honour to have your picture into this group
Patrick Rostker said:
I salute you and can see that you are very thrilled with it. Great shot, fly on....

Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

F. Javier Llorente, alias 'Wayfarer' said:
Plane is a Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express. See Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-87_Liberator_Express -- Wayfarer