Project Warbird

06/09/2025

We have been featured in an article by Vintage Aviation News! To check it out, click here: Now on to the update. Since we dedicated the month of May to fundraising, update news has accumulated. In fact, there is more to cover than we can fit into a single update. But for now, here goes… […]

06/02/2025

We have recently acquired some new pieces for the Liberator's radio rack. You can read more about it here in our latest update:

https://www.projectwarbird.com/post/liberator-radio-rack

Project Warbird

Since the LB.30 series was produced for Britain and France at a time when the United States was still neutral, the communications equipment for these aircraft were primarily composed of units commercially sold by the Bendix Corporation. These were housed in a large rack assembly, just aft of the rad...

05/16/2025

Check it out -

They did an article about us on Vintage Aviation News!

https://vintageaviationnews.com/restorations/restoration-begins-project-warbird-breathes-new-life-into-consolidated-lb-30-liberator-ii-al557.html

Project Warbird

After sitting derelict in the Colorado elements for more than two decades, Consolidated LB.30 Liberator II AL557 is finally getting the second chance it deserves. Under the leadership of Eric Miller and his team at Project Warbird, the rare RAF bomber is now undergoing a full restoration to flying c...

05/13/2025

Every once in a while someone unexpectedly reaches out to us with something that we have been struggling to find for a long time. This K-4 Mount was one of those parts. The Type K-4 Mount was a ball type mount for .50 caliber MGs, being common amongst Boeing B-17Fs. The number of K-4s installed […...

05/05/2025

Now that the move from the old location is finished, there is a lot to share. First up is a piece that I had been seeking for nearly seven years: the aircraft's chemical toilet. The Boeing B-17 carried a chemical toilet at the back of the waist compartment, just beside the main entry door.

05/02/2025

Update from the hangar. I finished up repairing a Van’s RV6 that was damaged by flood waters during Hurricane Helene. The owner flew it home this past Wednesday.
Update on Liberator II LB30 “Maid of Athens” I have just about finished restoring 9 of the oxygen bottles. They just need stencils. A couple more nose skins have been replaced with the stringers restored. The next section being worked on is the top skin of the nose. The wing center section and outer wing panels have arrived. I want to give a big “THANK YOU” to Worldwide Aircraft Recovery for the great job on transporting them.

04/30/2025

The wings are on their way home to South Carolina!

04/30/2025

The revamped Project Warbird website is now up and running!

Everything is rather barebones at the moment, as there is a great deal to add in the coming months. But at least the site is now revamped to showcase our current projects, with the B-24 being highlighted in particular.

To go along with the site, we have a new update to share regarding a recent acquisition, with some B-24 history to go alongside. To check it out, visit the link here:

As you can probably tell with the recent move of Hangar Thirteen, we at Project Warbird have been fairly busy lately. Still, we have an amazing new acquisition that we wanted to share with everyone right away – It is the radio operator’s table to Consolidated B-24L 44-50006. Because of the woodw...

04/30/2025

04/23/2025

Okay, so it has been a long time since our last update. But I think you can understand when I say what has been going on – We had to move. Longtime Facebook followers might recall that last year, on our original page, we posted an update saying that the airport was going to […]

03/26/2025

Need some help on the LB.30/B-24’s fire extinguishers.

Because she was delivered in 1941, virtually all of her equipment predates that which was standardized later in the war. This makes identifying and finding this stuff difficult.

The prints state that she carried a pair of Type A-14 CO2 fire extinguishers. None of our references acknowledge the A-14, suggesting that it was replaced somewhere around 1942. So, the only thing we have to go off of is the installation drawing.

That said, we were able to find an illustration of the mounting brackets in an Army index. Said illustrations note the brackets were made by Kidde, suggesting that the A-14 itself was too. We reached out to Kidde and they were not able to help.

Does anyone have anything on the A-14 fire extinguisher? Does anyone recognize it, or even have an example? What about the brackets – anyone come across any that look like this?

Similarly, we have not been able to find any information on the LB.30's little, brass carbon tet extinguishers. The bracket for one of them was still there when we got her and it does not match the Fyr Fyter types used later in the war. As such, it seems likely that she was equipped with whatever carbon tet. was standard in the RAF.

But going through RAF references, they make no mention of what model carbon tet was standard. Does anyone have any information on this?

I know that many RAF restorations use Pyrene units for this purpose, but is this based on some source or are they using Pyrenes just because they are the easiest carbon tet to find? And if Pyrenes are correct, what variant?

It occurred to me that Lancaster “Old Fred” at the Imperial War Museum might have her original carbon tet on board, but I cannot find photos of her interior detailed enough to make our her carbon tet. (One was kept by the pilot seat, so in theory, it should still be there.)

Any information on the A-14 and RAF issue carbon tet extinguishers would be most helpful!

Cheers!

03/25/2025

Update from the hangar. Work continues on a clients Van's RV-6 that was flooded during Hurricane Helene. We have been staging parts in the forward fuselage section of Liberator II 'Maid of Athens" AL557. Turner has been working on drilling the skins off around the LH forward window. The section of fuselage that was sitting next to the hangar is finally drilled apart and ready to go into storage. We received a crate full of British high pressure oxygen bottles for AL557 from Canada. We now only need a few more for a full set.