Aircraft

42-29857

salvaged or written off, 7 January 1949

Type: B-17F-75-BO (Boeing)
Assigned to the 483rd: 31 March 1944
Sources: b17flyingfortress.de

Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases

History

28 February 1943Delivered Denver
31 March 1943Tinker
10 April 1943Morrison
17 April 1943Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-J] Polebrook
23 April 1943transferred 12AF
10 May 1943348BS/99BG Navarin
4 August 1943Oudna
11 December 1943Tortorella
31 March 1944transferred 483BG Tortorella
30 September 194412AF
10 June 1945declared excess
11 April 1946repaired & re-ass 9AF as RB-17F at Oberpfaffenhofen, Ger
7 January 1949Salvaged

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

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