44-83575

media-32760.jpeg UPL 32760 B-17 Flying Fortress (serial #44-83575) painted in the colors of 'Nine-O-Nine', serial #42-31909. This B-17 is owned by the Collings Foundation and tours the US. You can find more information here: http://www.collingsfoundation.org/flight-experiences/

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Object Number - UPL 32760 - B-17 Flying Fortress (serial #44-83575) painted in the colors of 'Nine-O-Nine', serial #42-31909. This B-17 is owned by the Collings Foundation and...

Delivered Tulsa 6/4/45; Assigned USAF 7/4/45 before conversion to SB-17G search & rescue, before retiring joining 1 Rescue Sqd, Puerto Rico (6AF) 1951;



Used as a Civil aircraft N93012, at Stow, Mass, then to Yucca Flats for nuclear weapons range work as MISS YUCCA; damaged at Beaver Co, PA 1987;



Repaired and re-built in 1965, to represent NINE-O-NINE ( 42-31909) of 323BS/91BG, and operated by the Collings Foundation. Crashed on a pleasure flight on 2 October 2019, killing 7 passengers

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Crashed

Bradley International Airport 2 October 2019

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Los Angeles Times

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FARLEY, U.S. Army Aircraft 1926 -1946.

Osborne, FORTLOG.

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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