High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Consolidated P2Y is a patrol flying-boat aircraft. The plane was a parasol monoplane with a fabric covered wing and aluminum hull. Initially created to compete for a United States Navy contract dated February 28, 1928, the prototype Model 9, XPY-1, was designed by Captain Dick Richardson and Isaac M. 'Mac' Laddon. Beginning construction in March 1928, the plane was ready for its first flight by the end of the year. Lieutenant A. W. Gorton made the first flight out of Anacostia NAS, Washington, D.C..