The last flying PB4Y-2 Privateer -- the Navy's version of the U.S. Army Air Corp's World War II-era B-24 Liberator heavy bomber -- is in the Coachella Valley for a week-long layover at the Palm ...

PALM SPRINGS – A World War II-era U.S. Navy patrol bomber — a modified version of the U.S. Army Air Corps' B-24 Liberator heavy bomber — flew in to Palm Springs on Sunday for a weeklong visit to the ...

The world’s only airworthy Privateer bomber has been active in conflicts ranging from World War II to the early stages of the Cold War and everything in between. This year marks its 70th year in ...

In the years of Cold War, the usual crossroads of the International spying was the Baltic Sea, a narrow part of sea overlooking the Soviet Union, DDR and Poland for Warsaw’s Pact side, West Germany, ...

On a crisp morning in April 1950, the engines of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, nicknamed the Turbulent Turtle, roared to life on a runway of Wiesbaden, West Germany. This aircraft, a veteran of World War 2's ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - A one-of-a-kind WWII-era plane flew into the Wausau Downtown Airport on Monday. The PB4Y-2 Privateer is the only plane of its kind still flying. “We’re thrilled to have it here ...

WINDSOR — Don Straub points at a picture on his basement wall: two rows of crewmen near a Privateer bomber used by U.S. forces in the Pacific near the end of World War II. Straub is in the front row. ...

A TV news clip about the hazards of flying over Alaska brought me back almost 70 years. In early 1945 our squadron of PB4Y Privateer patrol bombers landed on Shemya Island, a dot in the ocean in the ...

OK, this one isn’t strictly car news, but we were alerted to the story by our friends at Chevrolet, and we know most of you enjoy a bit of vintage plane content as much as we do. A restoration effort ...

The planes, known respectively as the PB4Y-1 AND BQ-7, took off with a two-man crew, who would fly the plane to 2,000 feet and set a course for V-1 launch sites in France before bailing out. Though ...