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B-24 Liberator/AM927
"Ol' 927"
Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
And the new scheme revealed, May 2007.
Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
At Boscombe Down, June 1992. Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
At Boscombe Down, June 1992. Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
 Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
 Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
 Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
 Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
 Consolidated B-24 Liberator AM927
Serial #: AM927
Construction #: 18
Civilian Registration:
  NL24927
  N1503
  XC-CAY
  N12905
  N24927
Model(s):
  B-24A
  Liberator Mark I
  LB-30A
  RLB-30
Name: Diamond Lil
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2007
   History:
Damaged in Canada, not delivered to RAF, 1941.
Consolidated Vultee Corp, San Diego, CA, 1941-1947.
- Registered as NL24927, Apr. 1, 1947.
Continental Can Co, Morristown, NJ, Nov. 1948-1959.
- Registered as N1503.
Petroleos Mexicanos - PEMEX, Apr. 11, 1959-1967.
- Registered as XC-CAY, Nov. 1959.
Confederate Air Force, Harlingen TX, 1967-1990.
- Registered as N12905.
- Delivered from Mexico.
- Flew as Diamond Lil.
CAF/Commemorative Air Force, Midland, TX, Oct. 1990-2007.
- Registered as N24927, 1990.
- Operated by the CAF B-29/B-24 Squadron.
- Flew as Diamond Lil.
- Conversion back to B-24A begun, Winter 2006-07.
-- Follow this conversion on the Warbird Information Exchange.
- Flown as Ol 927, May 2007.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Pat Carry.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
Roling, Nigel - Pentavia Digital Imaging, http://website.lineone.net/~roling46/, 2002
Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group
Timothy Cox Collection.
Research Assistance:
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