Conflicting information on B-24D "Lady Be Good"

[Wirbelwind]

Nearly every resource I've seen so far, including Joe Baugher's USAF serials list, tells me that the B-24D "Lady Be Good" (41-24301) was a B-24D-25-CO, however in the book Hidden Warbirds by Nick Veronico (screenshot of the page attached), the same aircraft is listed as B-24D-CO. Does anyone know why this is? As far as I know, there's no such variant.

Source: Hidden Warbirds

Thanks,
Max

 

[Peter Gunn]

Typographical error perhaps?

 

[mcoffee]

The serial number defines the aircraft as a Block 25 San Diego built B-24D, or B-24D-25-CO. Consult Al Blue's definitive "The B-24 Liberator" for production blocks. "Hidden Warbirds" is simply incorrect.

 

[Wirbelwind]

The serial number defines the aircraft as a Block 25 San Diego built B-24D, or B-24D-25-CO. Consult Al Blue's definitive "The B-24 Liberator" for production blocks. "Hidden Warbirds" is simply incorrect.

Thanks for confirming.

Also noticed that the chart in "Hidden Warbirds" also incorrectly lists a B-24A as a B-24D-CO. So yeah, there's more than one inconsistency in there.

 

[drgondog]

Nearly every resource I've seen so far, including Joe Baugher's USAF serials list, tells me that the B-24D "Lady Be Good" (41-24301) was a B-24D-25-CO, however in the book Hidden Warbirds by Nick Veronico (screenshot of the page attached), the same aircraft is listed as B-24D-CO. Does anyone know why this is? As far as I know, there's no such variant.

Source: Hidden Warbirds

Thanks,
Max

The serial number pegs it as B-24D-25-CO. The range for B24D-CO was between 40-2349 and 41-11938 with many pulled within

 

[Dana Bell]

Hi Max,

When that B-24 was ordered (Fiscal Year 41 between July 1940 and June 1941) the block system didn't exist, and the aircraft was simply a B-24D. When the factory codes were introduced (sometime in 1941) the aircraft would have been identified as a B-24D-CO. The block numbers were introduced in 1942 (the factories were still arguing about how to use them that summer), and the "-25" would have been added then. I don't know when the aircraft was delivered, but she certainly was a B-24D-25-CO by the time she was lost.

Cheers,



Dana

 

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