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==Variants== [[File:Consolidated TB-32 production line.jpg|thumb|275px|TB-32s being assembled at Consolidated's Fort Worth factory]] ;XB-32 :Company Designation Model 33, three built, on first aircraft: Wright R-3350-13 (inboard) and Wright R-3350-21 (outboard) engines, three-bladed propeller, rounded, glassed nose, first two aircraft had a twin tail configuration. Second prototype was pressurized and had remotely controlled retractable gun turrets in the dorsal ventral positions, with a manned tail "stinger". Second and third prototypes had numerous tail variations installed, including a B-29 tail installation. First flown 7 September 1942. ;B-32-1-CF :Model 34 flight testing aircraft first flown 5 August 1944. Wright R-3350-23 engines. First two aircraft initially had modified B-29 tails installed. Installation of armament, single rudder tabs, radar bombing equipment (AN/APQ-5B and AN/APQ-13) and long range navigation equipment, 10 built. ;B-32-5-CF :Twin rudder tabs made standard. Last 11 aircraft converted to TB-32-5CF with deletion of all armament (openings faired over), deletion of radar bombing equipment, and deletion of long range navigation equipment, 15 built. ;TB-32-10-CF :Redesigned bombardier's entrance door, replacement of SCR-269-G Radio compass with AN/ARN-7 set, installation of engine fire extinguishers, 25 built. ;TB-32-15-CF :Empennage de-icer boots, four built. ;B-32-20-CF :Combat equipped aircraft. Pressurization system removed, scanning blister installed in rear fuselage, 21 built. ;B-32-21-CF :One B-32-20-CF converted to paratroop conversion. All bombing equipment removed and benches installed in rear bomb bay and rear fuselage. ;B-32-25-CF :Modified fuel system to allow auxiliary tanks in the bomb bay. AN/APN-9 LORAN, 25 built. ;B-32-30-CF :Variant with a stabilized Sperry A-17A nose turret, installation of countermeasure equipment (AN/APQ-2, AN/APT-1 and AN/APT-2) and improved APQ-13A radar bombing equipment. Seven built, last three aircraft flown directly to storage and scrapped. ;B-32-35-CF :Seven produced with increased ammunition; flown directly to storage and scrapped. ;B-32-40-CF :A total of ten were built and flown directly to storage and then scrapped ;B-32-45/50-CF: :A total of 37 under construction. Partially assembled machines were stripped of all their government-furnished equipment and engines and were scrapped on site by the contractor. ;B-32-1-CO :Three aircraft the same as the B-32-20-CF but assembled by Consolidated β San Diego. One aircraft accepted with the remaining two units flown directly to storage and scrapped. A total of 300 B-32s ordered, 118 delivered, 130 flyable, 170 cancelled, orders for a further 1,099 B-32-CFs and 499 B-32-COs were cancelled after VJ-Day.<ref>Andrade 1979, p. 51.</ref>
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