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Source:
Provided by P. Eckstedt
Production-block:
B-17G-95-DL: 44-83686 to 44-83885
Manufacturer:
Douglas
History of
B-17 44-83701
The fate of this B-17 Flying Fortress is unknown.
Last updated: 21. April 2025
B-17 44-83701 Details
May 1945 – To Hunter AAF GA
Jun 1945 – To Grenier AAF NM and departed the US (assigned to Air Transport Command, North Atlantic Wing)
Jan 1948 – To 1388th AF Base Unit (ATC), Ernst Harmon AFB Newfoundland (to TB-17H)
Jun 1948 – To 537th Air Base Squadron (Military Air Transport Service), Ernst Harmon AB
Sep 1948 – To 2152nd Rescue Squadron (MATS), Ernest Harmon AB (to SB-17G)
Apr 1949 – To 6th Air Rescue Squadron (MATS), Ernest Harmon AB (deployment to Pepperrell AB Newfoundland)
Oct 1951 – To 6th Air Rescue Squadron (MATS), Goose AB Labrador
Apr 1952 – To 7th Air Rescue Squadron (MATS), Lajes AP Azores
Nov 1952 – To 57th Air Rescue Squadron (MATS), Lajes AP
Apr 1956 – To 3040th Aircraft Storage Squadron (Air Materiel Command), Davis-Monthan AFB AZ
Jun 1956 – To Mobile Air Materiel Area, Brookley AFB AL (to QB-17N, drone target)
Oct 1956 – To 3205th Drone Group (Air Proving Ground), Eglin AFB FL and Patrick AFB FL
Oct 1957 – Tested to destruction
Information provided by P. Eckstedt
03. March 2024 access_time 22:36
a photograph exists on Facebook of this aircraft with the individual aircraft letter R above the serial nu.ber, no other markings are evident. The markings are in the same position as seen on 19th Photographic Mapping squadron B-17’s in the rare Photographs of the units aircraft. further more the picture is taken inside a J type hanger. Project Casey Jones 1945 to 1946 document gives 19th PMS as being attached to 305th Bomb Group who had a J type hanger at Chelveston. Not conclusive but balance of probability is that the aircraft was assigned to the 19th Photographic Mapping Squadron and scrapped in Europe post war