The NY-3 trainer was a NY with a 240-hp Wright R-760 Whirlwind engine. 20 examples were built from 1929 and mainly served with reserve units. The second aircraft is BuNo 9411, a Berliner-Joyce OJ-2 observation aircraft ordered in May 1933. It was based here at NRAB Brooklyn - better known as Floyd Bennett Field - by 1936. It survived until 1941. Only one NY trainer was still reported in service in 1939. Photo from: Life

HR is for Hampton Roads. Photo from: Peter Bowers Collection

The NY trainer could be put on floats. This photo is assumed to have been taken in Seattle where this example was based when it crashed on 15 November 1928. Photo from: Peter Bowers Collection

The NY-2 differed from the NY-1 in having a more powerful engine and a longer-span wing. This one was flown by NACA and has non-standard leading edge slats. Photo from: NASA Langley

Crash of the very first Consolidated NY. The NY was a naval version of the US Army's PT-1 Trusty. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

NAS Pensacola is painted on the fin. Photo from: Denver City Library Special Collection

Photo from: Denver City Library Special Collection

Photographed at the Consolidated Aircraft factory which had also been the Curtiss factory during World War I. There was no airfield at the factory and Curtiss and Consolidated used different airfields a short distance away for test flying. Both manufacturers delivered aircraft dismantled. The NY-1s were assembled at Pensacola. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland