Consolidated Fleetster

The Army Air Corps bought three Consolidated Fleetster Model 17-2s and designated them Y1C-22s.

The Air Corps had previously bought one Consolidated Model 17-1 Fleetster for use as an executive staff transport by the Assistant Secretary of War, F. Trubee Davison. When Consolidated introduced the Model 17-2, the original [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] was upgraded to these new specifications and re-designated it as [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

Because the C-11A had minor differences with the new production model 17-2s, the Air Corps established a new designation rather than a new model (i.e. Y1C-22, not C-11B).

During the 1920s and 1930s, it was common practice for the Air Corps to assign a new designation to a plane every time a new engine model was installed.
(Note: this was not always the case; obviously, since the Y1C-11 was changed to C-11A with a new engine model.)

With the new engine, the Y1C-22 was faster and able to carry a larger payload than the Y1C-11.

The mission of the new planes remained executive staff transport.

The Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics and the Chief of the Air Corps used the Y1C-22s for various missions like inspection tours of Army air fields throughout the country and to shuttle back and forth between important locations (i.e. Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., and Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio).

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