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Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1941· torpedo bomber
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Cconsolidated TBY-2 on the ground 1945: U.S. Navy· Public domain
what is it?
The Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf was a torpedo bomber designed by Vought and was manufactured by Consolidated Aircraft. It was flown by the United States Navy (USN). It was designed during the late 1930s and early 1940s as the XTBU-1 Sea Wolf by Vought to replace the aging TBD Devastator in competition with the Grumman TBF Avenger.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · mid wing · retractable tailwheel (taildragger) · 17.4 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 85 years ago, in 1941.
- Top speed is 3.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 17.4 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1941-12-22
- introduced
- 1944
- status
- retired
- number built
- 181
- role
- torpedo bomber
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Consolidated Aircraft
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney R-2800-22 Double Wasp / R-2800-22W Double Wasp
- crew
- 3
- length
- 11.9 m
- wingspan
- 17.4 m
- height
- 4.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 8,591 kg
- top speed
- 502 km/h
- cruise speed
- 251 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 8,961 m
- wings
- mid wing
- landing gear
- retractable conventional landing gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q82450, Wikipedia: Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.