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Production-block:
B-17G-95-DL: 44-83686 to 44-83885
Manufacturer:
Douglas
History of
B-17 44-83872 / Texas Raiders
Delivered & Assigned US Navy Johnsville 12/7/45 as PB-1W {77235}; Assigned VX-4 Quonset Pt 5/47; Norfolk 4/50; transferred NAS 103 Quonset Pt 22/11/50; VX-4 Patuxent River 1/52; re-designated VW-2 18/6/52; Norfolk 6/53; VW-1 Atsugi, Japan 4/2/54; RetUS, Litchfield Pk 15/1/55; SO 10/7/56; AeroServ Corp, Phil 1/10/57, Civil N7227C; ACS Inc 29/12/61; Confederate AF Mercedes, Tx 22/9/67; restored as 533BS/381BG [VP-X], (based at Ridgewell, Essex, UK) at CAF Gulf Coast Wing, Spring, near Houston, Tex., performing at air shows as TEXAS RAIDERS. Mid-Air-Collision with P-63 on 12/11/2022.
Last updated: 13. November 2022
16. November 2021 access_time 18:45
Hello, I am the Wing Historian for B-17 Texas Raiders and I wanted to submit two small corrections for addition to your otherwise superb B-17 database! Please contact me if you have any questions:
1) A/C was assigned to VW-1 squadron on 1/15/54 at Barbers Pt. Hawaii
2) Based on two different flight crew records, one of whom belongs to a current member of our Wing, plus recently unearthed engine & propeller maintenance records belonging to the aircraft, we can find no evidence that she was ever in Japan. In fact, the evidence we have refutes that supposition. We have since fixed this longstanding “error” in our own history and ask that it be fixed here, as well.
3) In 2016 Texas Raiders moved to Conroe, TX from Spring, TX, so we would like to have that updated as well.
Thank you again for maintaining such a fantastic database. I use it almost daily for various research projects. Keep up the good work!
Kevin “K5” Michels
CAF Gulf Coast Wing
Wing Historian & Flight Crewmember
B-17 Texas Raiders
12. November 2022 access_time 22:14
Heard this beauty crashed today. breaks my heart…
13. November 2022 access_time 9:57
saw that terrible news today after waking up. Very sad in all.
12. November 2022 access_time 22:23
is she salvageable