Northrop P-61G Black Widow

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The Northrop P-61G was the unofficial designation given to sixteen Black Widow night-fighters converted to perform as weather reconnaissance aircraft. The conversion as carried out by Douglas Aircraft at Tulsa, and involved stripping the guns, night camouflage and radar from standard P-61Bs and replacing it with General Electric APS-10 weather radar. Fourteen of the sixteen aircraft began operations with the 4185th AAF Base Unit, at Independence, Kansas, before during 1946 being scattered amongst a number of research projects, most notably project THUNDERSTORM.

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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (30 June 2009), Northrop P-61G Black Widow , http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_northrop_P-61G.html

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