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

Delivered Long Beach 13/8/43; Cheyenne 17/8/43; with Bill Ball to 223 BU Dyersburg 25/1/45; Recl Comp 9/2/45.

Delivered Long Beach 13/8/43; Cheyenne 15/8/43; Tinker 13/12/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 11/11/44; Recl Comp 27/7/45.

Delivered Long Beach 13/8/43; Cheyenne 15/8/43; with Wilbur Dwyer force landed Rapid City 2/2/44; 3010 BU Williams 28/11/44; 225 BU Rapid City 29/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 8/8/45.

Delivered Lincoln 2/12/44; Dow Fd 15/12/44; Assigned 483BG Sterparone 20/12/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 19/10/45; 593 BU Charleston 28/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/12/45.

Delivered Lincoln 1/12/44; Dow Fd 15/12/44; Assigned 97BG Amendola 26/3/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 9/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

Delivered Hunter 1/12/44; Grenier 9/12/44; Assigned 97BG Amendola 11/1/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Hunter 1/12/44; Grenier 9/12/44; Assigned 15AF 1/1/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Lincoln 30/11/44; Dow Fd 15/12/44; Assigned 97BG Amendola 11/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; Independence 20/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45.

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

Delivered Hunter 28/3/45; Slated 8AF, transferred Sth Plains 23/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/10/45.

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

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

Delivered Hunter 29/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 24/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; 594 BU Topeka 26/8/46; 4112 BU Olmstead 22/9/46; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 3/10/46; re-ass 31/3/47; AMC Olmstead 14/9/48; Recl Comp 10/11/49.

Delivered Topeka 29/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 15/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; 129 BU Columbia for special weapon training 25/9/45; 139 BU Shaw 25/11/45; 2528 BU Midland 20/12/45; 2622 BU Mather 20/3/46; 556 BU Long Beach 31/5/46; 613 BU Phillips 3/6/46.

As VB-17G used by Maj Gen Glenn O.Barcus, CO of 5AF Fighter Command in Korea.

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

Delivered Hunter 30/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 24/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; Assigned US Navy, Johnsville 4/6/45 as PB-1W {34114}; then Civil 7726B for Hamilton Aircraft Jan 1958; Peru {OB-SAC 576}; crashed Rioja, Peru, (as OB-SAC-576), March 1963.

Delivered Topeka 30/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 15/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; Long Beach 23/9/45; 4100 BU Patterson 19/9/46; Salvaged Japan 18/4/47.

Converted to B-17H Air Sea Rescue ship, the as CB-17 in Okinawa 1950, with H2X nose.

Delivered Hunter 30/3/45; Slated 15AF, transferred Sth Plains 20/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; with ? force landed Berry Fd, TN 30/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/11/45.