Consolidated
B-24L Liberator Instrument Panel
AeroAntique is pleased to share this instrument panel owned by one of our good friends. We welcome inquiries and are happy to put you in contact with the owner of this artifact. Please email us with the name of the artifact at 2banaviator@gmail.com .
This WWII-era B-24L Liberator instrument panel resides in the collection of a good friend in New Zealand.
According to its owner:
"This one really was the first panel I ever collected, at the former RAAF Station Tocumwal, NSW, in 1961. The aircraft was built as 44-41612 and Lend-Leased to the RAAF as A72-116. It spent its service life with 7 Operational Training Unit based at Tocumwal in southern New South Wales, and ultimately was scrapped there after the war. Of the 105 B-24s that served with 7 OTU in its 25 months of existence, only two aircraft were lost in accidents and only two airmen, the co-pilot and flight engineer of A72-112, died in those losses -- an exceptionally good record for a heavy bomber training unit. (Refer to "Australia's Liberators" printed by Red Roo Models in 2009)."