Consolidated
LB-30B
Liberator
Starting in March 1941, the U.S. Army Air Force transferred six YB-24s and twenty B-24As (this one being number 18) to Great Britain. The U.S. redesignated the YB-24s as LB-30A and the B-24As as LB30B. They received standard British serial numbers. The British called the LB-30B Liberator Mk. I. Consolidated "LB" was short for Land Bomber.
Throughout World War II, the British received more than 500 Liberators for uses ranging from long endurance coastal patrols to long range transports (C-87).