A beautiful vintage – and rare - Boeing photo of the first XN2B-1 of 1928, BuNo A8010. Rare because it is shown with the original experimental Axelson engine, which the Navy immediately exchanged for a more reliable Wright J-6-5 engine in January 1929. This is a one-off aircraft and it did not see production. The original news release/caption is with the photo. I removed it many years ago to protect the photo. An original vintage black and white 8 X 10 photograph in perfect condition with a very slight discoloration along the top edge from the typical Boeing paper tape on the reverse. This photo, like most of the 4000+ manufacturer, national archives, Air Corps, USAAF, USN, USMC and USCG aviation photos in my collection, came from author and pre-WWII USMC Col. Robert Rankin in the early seventies. Col. Rankin acquired them in his research for various aviation articles from the thirties through the fifties.
MOVED: Boeing XN2B-1 (Model 81) Navy trainer prototype (1928)