Aircraft

42-29507 Bad Penny / Lady Luck

Type

B-17F-55-BO (Boeing)

Names

Bad Penny / Lady Luck

Assigned to the 483rd

31 March 1944

Transferred

{'date': None, 'text': '419BS/301BG Lucera 17/5/44 as training a/c'}

Sources

Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de

History

• 28 December 1942Delivered Denver
• 6 January 1943Salina
• 31 January 1943Morrison
• 20 February 1943Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin
• 4 August 1943Oudna
• 11 December 1943Tortorella
• 31 March 1944transferred 840BS/483BG Tortorella
• 419BS/301BG Lucera 17/5/44 as training a/c
• 463BG Celone 9/44
• 20 March 1945Returned to the USA Morrison
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 7/7/45. LADY LUCK II

Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.

Photographs and loss sheets

• B-17 42-29507 B-17 F 55 BO 'Bad Penny' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-29507 B-17 F 55 BO 'Bad Penny' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-29507 B-17 F 55 BO 'Bad Penny' · view at 15thaf.org

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