List of surviving Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. Developed by Boeing, a total of 12,731 aircraft had been produced by Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed from 1936 until 1945. While a vast majority (over 8,000) of these aircraft were lost in both combat operations as well as training accidents, the remaining combat veterans and early production models were stored and later scrapped in the vast scrap drives of the late 1940s.
The majority of the aircraft that survive today came from the last batches of aircraft produced by both Douglas and Lockheed, which had better corrosion control practices. These aircraft had found use in the 1950s and early 1960s as DB-17 Drone Director and QB-17 target aircraft with the USAF, as U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard early warning, air sea rescue or weather aircraft (known by the naval aircraft designations PB-1W or PB-1G), or overseas as photo mapping aircraft with French National Geographic Institute. After retirement from active service, these aircraft were converted during the 1960s to the late 1980s as aerial sprayer or water tanker aircraft. During the late 1970s when the warbird movement began, these survivors were eagerly anticipated and as each came on the civilian market many were restored to original combat configuration.
With the availability of intact, existing airframes beginning to diminish, the warbird movement, starting in the late 1990s and continuing to the present, has been seeking out previously considered unrecoverable airframes for restoration.
Brazil
- On display
- B-17G (s/n 44-85583) is on display at Recife Air Force Base.[1]
- Under restoration or in storage
France
- Airworthy
- Under restoration or in storage
United Kingdom
- Airworthy
- On display
United States
- Airworthy
- B-17F (s/n 42-29782) Boeing Bee is stored at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.[9]
- B-17G (s/n 44-8543) Chuckie is owned by Training Services Inc. in Virginia Beach, Virginia.[10]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83514) Sentimental Journey is owned by Commemorative Air Force (Arizona Wing) in Mesa, Arizona.[11]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83546) Memphis Belle is owned by the Military Aircraft Restoration Corp. in Anaheim, California.[12]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83563) Fuddy Duddy is owned by Martin Aviation Inc. in Santa Ana, California.[13]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83575) Nine-O-Nine is owned by the Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts.[14]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83872) Texas Raiders is owned by the Commemorative Air Force (Gulf Coast Wing) in Houston, Texas.[15]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85718) Thunderbird is owned by the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas.[16]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85740) Aluminum Overcast is airworthy and owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[17]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85778) Miss Angela is owned by the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California.[18]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85829) Yankee Lady is owned by the Yankee Air Force in Belleville, Michigan.[19]
- On display
- B-17E (s/n 41-2446) Swamp Ghost is on display unrestored at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California.[20]
- B-17F (s/n 42-3374) Homesick Angel is on display at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.[21]
- B-17G (s/n 42-32076) Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.[22]
- B-17G (s/n 43-38635) Virgin's Delight is on display at the Castle Air Museum, former Castle AFB, California.[23][nb 1]
- B-17G (s/n 44-6393) Return To Glory is on display at the March Field Air Museum (March Joint Air Reserve Base), Moreno Valley, California.[24]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83512) Heavens Above is on display at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas.[25]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83542) Piccadilly Princess is on display at the Fantasy of Flight Museum in Polk City, Florida.[26]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83559) King Bee is on display at the Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska.[27]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83624) Sleepy Time Gal is on display at the Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Delaware.[28]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83663) Short Bier is on display at the Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, Utah.[29]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83690) Miss Liberty Belle is on display at the Grissom Air Museum in Peru, Indiana.[30]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83785) Evergreen International is on display at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.[31]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83863) Gremlin's Hideout is on display at the Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, Florida.[32]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83884) Yankee Doodle II is on display at the Eighth Air Force Museum, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.[33]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85599) Reluctant Dragon is on display at Dyess AFB, Abilene, Texas.[34]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85738) Preston's Pride is on display at AMVETS Chapter 56 (Mefford Field)[35] in Tulare, California.[36]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85790) Lacey Lady is on display at The Bomber Foundation in Milwaukie, Oregon.[37]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85828) I'll Be Around is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.[38]
- Stored or under restoration
- B-17D (s/n 40-3097) The Swoose is under restoration by the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.[39]
- B-17E (s/n 41-2595) Desert Rat is under restoration by Michael W. Kellner in Crystal Lake, Illinois.[40]
- B-17E (s/n 41-9032) My Gal Sal is under restoration by the Ultimate Sacrifice Memorial Foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio.[41]
- B-17E (s/n 41-9210) is under restoration to airworthiness by Vulcan Warbirds Inc. in Seattle, Washington.[42]
- B-17F (s/n 41-24485) Memphis Belle is under restoration by the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.[43]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83525) Suzy Q is in storage at the Fantasy of Flight Museum in Polk City, Florida.[44][nb 2]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83684) Piccadilly Lilly II is under restoration to airworthiness by the Planes of Fame in Chino, California.[45]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83814) is in storage at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..[46]
- B-17G (s/n 44-83790) is under restoration by Don Brook in Douglas, Georgia.[47]
- B-17G (s/n 44-85813) is under restoration to airworthiness by Tech II in Springfield, Ohio.[48]
See also
Notes
- ^ Another Virgin's Delight (s/n 42-3352), flying with the 410th Bombardment Squadron was shot down and lost in the North Sea on November 29, 1943.
- ^ Another Suzy Q (s/n 41-2489), flying with the 93rd Bombardment Squadron was scrapped sometime after July 1946.
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