Thomas-Morse XO-932 Y1O-41

Thomas-Morse XO-932 Y1O-41

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08/15/2008. The first O-19B was converted to the sole O-33 on May 4, 1931, fitted with revised tail surfaces and a 600 hp Curtiss V-1570-11 Conqueror twelve-cylinder Prestone-cooled V-engine replacing the original 450 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-7 Wasp nine-cylinder air-cooled radial. Later this aircraft was fitted with new sesqui-wings, while the Conqueror was geared, and the aircraft, tentatively designated Y1O-41, was tested at Wright Field, Ohio, on a Bailment Contract as the XO-932.

Thomas-Morse had become a division of Consolidated in 1929 and was discontinued in 1934, the year the XO-932 was stripped of its military equipment and rebuilt as the Consolidated 23 on September 21, 1934. Registered NR33Y the aircraft was used as a company transport till it was sold to Colonel Alfredo Lezama Alvarez of Mexico in December 1936, where it was registered as XA-DBX. The fate of the aircraft is unknown.


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08/15/2008. The first O-19B was converted to the sole O-33 on May 4, 1931, fitted with revised tail surfaces and a 600 hp Curtiss V-1570-11 Conqueror twelve-cylinder Prestone-cooled V-engine replacing the original 450 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-7 Wasp nine-cylinder air-cooled radial. Later this aircraft was fitted with new sesqui-wings, while the Conqueror was geared, and the aircraft, tentatively designated Y1O-41, was tested at Wright Field, Ohio, on a Bailment Contract as the XO-932. Thomas-Morse had become a division of Consolidated in 1929 and was discontinued in 1934, the year the XO-932 was stripped of its military equipment and rebuilt as the Consolidated 23 on September 21, 1934. Registered NR33Y the aircraft was used as a company transport till it was sold to Colonel Alfredo Lezama Alvarez of Mexico in December 1936, where it was registered as XA-DBX. The fate of the aircraft is unknown.