Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Sheet metal work benches at a large Western aircraft plant form an interesting pattern. Consolidated transport and bomber planes are built here. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country