Name This Plane Quiz #1234c

[seacue]

Name this plane:

Mystery Plane (http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/cc3.JPG)

[DavidGeorge]

Is it by any chance a CC3 (as in CC3.JPG)?

[seacue]

No, I wasn't so careless as to name the JPG with the name of the plane.....:D

[Weight and Balance]

I think it's a Consolidated Commodore, built in Buffalo before Consolidated moved to San Diego. IIRC, the design was the loser in a USN contest for a long range patrol aircraft, and Consolidated was lucky enough to sell civil versions to Pan Am.

[Peter Barron]

I agree.

Consolidated Commodore.

Peter.

[Hairyplane]

I like these quizzes, probably because I am so cr@p at them.

If it is Consolidated Commodore, I have worked out the odds on the JPeg 'CC' annotation matching the initials of the aircraft by accident. It is a whopping 68,054 to one.

If it isn't a Consolidated Commodore then maybe the CC was just a red herring?

More of these please!

HP

[Mr_Grubby]

Me thinks it is a Consolidated Commodore. Could carry 20 passengers and had a range of 1,000 miles at a speed of 100 mph.
It flew the inaugural Miami – Buenos Aires service for N.Y.R.B.A. Line in Feb. 1930.
Pan Am had 14 and flew them on their longest oversea route at the time, Jamaica – Panama.


Mr G.

[seacue]

Yes, it's a Consolidated Commodore. 14 built. Flown by NYRBA and then PanAm for about ten years starting 1929-30. Last one scrapped about 1944.

Description of the Commodore and NYRBA. (http://www.aviationposters.com/nyrba.htm)

The quiz was easier than I thought it might be, being a strictly American plane.


SC

[treadigraph]

I'd have got it with the help of a reference book, never in a million Sundays from me own Neurons!

How about a competition pic a week?

[BlueEagle]

It has been on PPRuNe before but for those who enjoy aircraft recognition you may want to try the Skills Test (http://www.studenten.net/customasp/axl/index.asp) shown here. Have fun!