page_title: Lockheed YP-24
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: Lockheed YP-24 / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: English: Detroit-Lockheed YP-24 side view. (U.S. Air Force photo)
context_page_description: The Lockheed-Detroit YP-24 was a 1930s prototype two-seat fighter aircraft. An attack version called the A-9 was also proposed. The YP-24 is most remarkable for being the first fighter aircraft to bear the Lockheed name.
context_section_description: On 19 October 1931, the sole aircraft crashed. The aircraft had a partially stuck landing gear, and Wright Field pilots painted messages on the side of their P-12D and O-25C aircraft, indicating to test pilot Lt. Harrison Crocker to bail out.
  Shortly after, in October 1931, events in the Great Depression forced Detroit Aircraft into bankruptcy  with Lockheed following suit in June 1932. Although Lockheed was resuscitated by a group of investors only five days after it closed doors, the financial hardships had taken their toll and the P-24/A-9 project was cancelled with no aircraft built beyond the original prototype. Four pre-production Y1P-24s, 32-321/324, were cancelled. However, after Robert Woods left Detroit Aircraft for Consolidated Aircraft, he continued to develop the YP-24/A-9 concept into Consolidated Y1P-25/Y1A-11 which eventually entered service as Consolidated P-30.
caption: Detroit-Lockheed YP-24
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