B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies Latest entries in the database

Delivered Cheyenne 23/3/44; Gr Island 12/4/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 731BS/452BG [7D- ] Deopham Green 30/4/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Don Hattrem 21/6/44; Salvaged 2/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/3/45; Sth Plains 3/5/45; re-ass 31/3/47; 343 BU MacDill 7/6/47; 343 BU Topeka 28/7/48; 55 ABGp Topeka 10/2/49; 4205 ABGp Mt Home 12/10/49; 5 MSU Fairmont 15/12/49; to USN, Recl Comp 10/1/50.

The fate of this B-17 Flying Fortress is unknown.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/3/45; Hunter 25/3/45; Sth Plains 18/4/45; 2140 BU Smyrna 31/1/46; 342 BU Smyrna 30/4/46; 613 BU Phillips 18/6/46; 554 BU Memphis 23/6/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/3/45; Hunter Fd, transferred Sth Plains 27/4/45; 611 BU Eglin 11/7/45; transferred from War Assets Admin in 8/46 as USN 8/46 [85571] to Cornell Aero. Lab. as test bed for Westinghouse J30 jet engine, later installed in FD-1 Phantom; Cornell Aero/Labs, Buffalo, NY as XPB-1 [83992]; (engine fitted under wing on external bomb shackles, but when starter burned out as ignition switch was wired in reverse); 4104 BU Rome 21/2/47; project dropped and aircraft transferred NAAF Mustin Fd 6/48; as 83992 Assigned VX-4 NAS Patuxent River 5/50 with TD Key West; sent for storage Litchfield Park 10/53, but scrapped for spares 24/11/54. Written off 1955.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/45; Sth Plains 27/3/45; 611 BU Eglin 17/8/45.

Sold by USAF to Brazilain Air Force {5401} assigned to 1st & 2nd Sqd 60 BG in Recife. Withdrawn from service 1967.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/45; Hunter 27/3/45; Sth Plains 19/4/45; 2140 BU Smyrna 12/11/45; 342 BU Smyrna 30/4/46; 594 BU Topeka 19/6/46; 613 BU Phillips 25/6/46; 594 BU Topeka 7/7/46.

Delivered Louisville 17/3/45; Sth Plains 6/4/45; 610 BU Eglin 19/7/45; 620 BU Muroc 26/7/45; re-ass 31/3/47; 4141 BU Pyote 1/1/48; Recl Comp 15/4/50.

Delivered Louisville 19/3/45; Hunter 30/3/45; Sth Plains 20/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/12/45.

Delivered Louisville 15/3/45; Topeka 26/3/45; Sth Plains 15/4/45; 2140 BU Smyrna 31/1/46; 342 BU Smyrna 10/4/46; 594 BU Topeka 18/6/46; 342 BU Smyrna 16/8/46.

Delivered Louisville 13/3/45; Hunter 30/3/45; Sth Plains 19/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Hunter 11/1/45; Grenier 24/1/45; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 4/3/45; transferred 384BG Grafton Underwood 9/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 18/9/46; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47.

Delivered Hunter 9/1/45; Dow Fd 19/1/45; Assigned 8AF 1/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 29/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/1/46.

Delivered Hunter 9/1/45; Grenier 24/1/45; Assigned 8AF 3/2/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 1/10/48.

Delivered Hunter 12/1/45; Dow Fd 28/1/45; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 1/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 31/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 12/1/45; Grenier 26/1/45; Assigned 8AF 8/2/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfafffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 16/12/48.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 327 BU Drew 4/5/45; 301 BU Drew 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 327 BU Drew 4/5/45; 301 BU Drew 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; Delivered Marbry 11/4/44; MacDill 13/4/44; with Preston McCarson force landed MacDill 16/9/44; 335 BU Delivered Marbry 10/11/44; 326 BU MacDill 16/11/44; 325 BU Avon Park 15/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 22/8/45.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 326 BU MacDill, with Allen Aschenbach crash landed MacDill 26/8/44; W/O 7/9/44; Recl Comp 21/8/45. LINDA SUE!.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 4103 BU Jackson 29/11/44; with Justin Lubojasky 8/2/45; 327 BU Drew 4/5/45; 301 BU Drew 22/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 325 BU Avon Park 9/12/44; with John Girard force landed FL 28/1/45; Recl Comp 9/2/45.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 327 BU Drew 4/5/45; 62 BU Morrison 13/1/46; 62 BU MacDill 3/9/46; 5 ERS Morrison 10/12/46; 4141 BU Pyote 11/2/47; Recl Comp 31/3/49.