Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation

Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation produced the excellent Catalina and Coronado flying boats at its San Diego plant. Consolidated also designed and produced the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, which was arguably superior to the Flying Fortress, and which was produced in greater numbers (though most of the production was done by Ford at the Willow Run plant.)

Consolidated Vultee in San Diego produced an average of about 40 PBY, 10 PB2Y, and 164 B-24 airframes a month. The company set up additional plants for B-24 production at Fort Worth, Nashville, New Orleans, and Wayne (MI), which produced an average total of about 114 airframes a month.

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