B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 44-83864

Delivered Syracuse 4/7/45; Assigned US Navy Johnsville 11/7/45 as PB-1W {77232}; Assigned VX-4 Quonset Pt 6/47; transferred VPW-1 Ream Fd, Cal 4/48; Glenn Martin Co, Baltimore 2/50 (test prog); Norfolk 7/52; VW-1 Barbers Pt, Hawaii 15/9/53; duly armed, patrolled Kwajalein Atoll for Red subs; Returned to the USA Litchfield Pk 17/1/55; SO 10/7/56; AmComp Steel Corp, Dallas 2/12/57, Civil N5234V; AeroFoto, Mexico as EX-BOE 3/1/58; Hurd AirSurv, Goleta, Cal 2/3/64; a week later to CalNat Air, Grass Valley, Cal as tanker; Black Hills Avn, Alamogordo, NM 2/4/68; crashed Silver City, NM 7/12/72.