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

Delivered Long Beach 16/8/43; Cheyenne 18/8/43; (F-9B) Assigned 4143 BU Gander 10/2/44; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 31/1/46; 4112 BU Olmstead 6/6/46; 16 Photo Gp MacDill 17/7/46; 4104 BU Rome 2/10/46; 16 Photo Gp MacDill 13/10/46; Recl Comp 14/11/47.

Delivered Long Beach 17/8/43; Cheyenne 18/8/43; (F-9B) Assigned Mapping Dakar (Senegal), 29/2/44; Returned to the USA MacDill 11/8/44; Robins 16/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 30/7/45.

Delivered Long Beach 16/8/43; Cheyenne 17/8/43; (F-9B) Assigned Min Mapping Asia 1/4/44; Ret US Independence 13/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/11/45.

Delivered Long Beach 18/8/43; 327 BU MacDill, with Bill Brown force landed MacDill 16/2/44; Written off 18/12/44.

Delivered Hunter 26/3/45; Slated 8AF, transferred El Paso 30/3/45; Patterson 17/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 31/10/45.

Delivered Hunter 26/3/45; Slated 8AF, transferred Fairfield 14/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/11/45.

Delivered Hunter 27/3/45; Slated 8AF, transferred Dallas 3/4/45; Patterson 9/4/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/11/45; re-ass 31/3/47; 4141 BU Pyote 23/7/47; 4117 BU Robins 19/3/48; 4112 BU Olmstead 30/6/48; 2 RES Sq Kadena 19/2/49; 4 RES Sq North 3/4/49; 2 RCU Sq North 31/5/49; 2 RCU Sq Anderson Fd, Guam 30/8/50; with Hubert Meyer landing accident due to poor weather at Haneda, Japan 18/11/50; 1503 TSP Haneda 27/11/50; Recl Comp 9/11/51.

Delivered Hunter 27/3/45; Slated 8AF, transferred Sth Plains 18/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; 4121 BU Kelly 20/2/46; 4117 BU Robins 25/2/45; 15 TSK Gp Clovis 25/3/45; 556 BU Long Beach 9/6/46; 1503 BU Hamilton 16/6/46; 1504 BU Fairfield 20/8/46; 509 Comp Gp Roswell (Operation Crossroads) 21/8/46; 4104 BU Rome 16/10/46; AMC Columbus 27/11/46; 4000 BU Wright 22/5/47; 1 EG Eglin 28/5/47; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/4/48; 609 BU Eglin 17/10/48; Recl Comp 30/1/49.

Delivered Hunter 27/3/45; Slated 8AF, transferred Sth Plains 24/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/10/45.

Delivered Topeka 31/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 15/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/11/45.

Delivered Topeka 31/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 15/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; Bolling 3/8/45; 1 BAS Bolling 13/6/46 prepared as CB-17 for Gen Sutherland in Manila, PI; 4104 BU Rome 1/8/46; Recl Comp 24/7/47.

Delivered Topeka 31/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 15/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/10/45.

Assigned 20AF HQ in Guam, used by Gen Walter Krueger; called BILLY.

Delivered Topeka 2/4/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Patterson 7/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/11/45.

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

Delivered Long Beach 15/8/43; Cheyenne 18/8/43; Tinker 14/12/43; 7AB Dow Fd 30/5/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 16/8/44; Written off 22/11/44.

Delivered Long Beach 14/8/43; Cheyenne 17/8/43; 30BS/19BG Pyote 16/9/43; Tinker 11/10/43; with Ken Kales crash landed 75 miles SE Amarillo Fd, Tx 31/1/44; 222 BU Ardmore 19/9/44; 332 BU Ardmore 16/6/45; 215 BU Pueblo 20/6/45; 4210 BU Lambert 12/7/45; 215 BU Pueblo 19/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/10/45.

Delivered Long Beach 14/8/43; Cheyenne 17/8/43; 2114 BU Lockbourn 6/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 13/8/43; Cheyenne 15/8/43; 4119 BU Brookley 23/10/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 13/12/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 325 BU Avon Park 21/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/8/45.