Production-block:
B-17G-90-DL: 44-83586 to 44-83685
Manufacturer:
Douglas
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History of
B-17 44-83657
The fate of this B-17 Flying Fortress is unknown.
Last updated: 4. February 2019
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09. July 2023 access_time 17:37
B-17G 44-83657 was converted to a target drone director (DB-17) after having been stored until August 1949. She served in this role until taken out of service in April 1958. Apparently this aircraft carried a large “drone letter” A on the vertical stabilizer. To date have not located a verifiable photo of this aircraft. Aircraft record card was coded “inactive-flyable salvage” but with code letter D which could mean “tested to destruction” – a code normally used with target drone aircraft. Fate indeterminate.