44-85784 / Sally B | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress

B-17 #44-85784 / Sally B — **Source:**
By Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Production-block:
B-17G-105-VE: 44-85692 to 44-85791

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History of
B-17 44-85784 / Sally B

Delivered Burbank 19/6/45; Rome 13/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45; designated EB-17G, then ETB-17G and used for man-carrying wing tip pod tests 1949; sold IGN France as F-BGSR 31/10/54; sold to Ted White as N17TE in 1970; to UK as G-BEDF on airshow circuit at IWM Duxford, UK., as SALLY B (41-24485 more latterly as MEMPHIS BELLE).

Source: The B-17 Flying Fortress Story (Affiliate-Link/CommissionsEarned)

Last updated: 9. August 2018

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