Aircraft
42-5818 Crappy
816threturned to the USA, 17 April 1945
- Type
- B-17F-25-VE (Lockheed/Vega)
- Names
- Crappy
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 26 February 1943Delivered Long Beach
- 25 March 1943Smoky Hill
- 12 April 1943Morrison
- 12 May 1943Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin
- 4 August 1943Oudna
- transferred 816BS/483BG Tortorella 31/3/44 as cargo aircraft to 9/44
- 17 April 1945Returned to the USA Morrison
- 22 April 1945Rome
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 3/7/45. CRAPPY
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 42-5818 B-17 F 25 VE 'Crappy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-5818 B-17 25 VE 'Crappy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17F-VE CRAPPY · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- UPL 41361 B-17F-VE CRAPPY · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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