List of surviving Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses

B-17G 44-83514
Sentimental Journey
Commemorative Air Force
B-17G, Virgin's Delight, Castle Air Museum
B-17D 40-3097
Ole Betsy/The Swoose under restoration
B-17G 44-83735
Mary Alice is part of the American Air Museum collection at the Imperial War Museum Duxford
B-17G 44-83684
Picadily Lilly II
Planes of Fame Museum
B-17G 44-83575
Nine-O-Nine
Collings Foundation
B-17G 44-83785
Shady Lady
Evergreen Aviation Museum
B-17G 44-85740
Aluminum Overcast
Centennial Airport, CO, 2007
Sally B is one of only two airworthy B-17 in Europe. (Seen here in 1985)
B-17G 44-85718
Thunderbird
Lone Star Flight Museum
B-17F 41-24485
Memphis Belle
USAF Museum

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. A majority (over 8,000) of these aircraft were lost in either combat operations or training accidents. The remaining combat veterans and early production models were stored and later scrapped in the vast scrap drives of the late 1940s, many going to aircraft boneyards like Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the largest of its kind within the United States' borders.

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 bulk cargo transport, aerial sprayer, and 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. In the 1990s, as intact, existing airframes became increasingly rare (only 46 intact B-17s are known to exist as of August 2013), restorers began seeking out airframes that were previously considered unrecoverable.

Brazil

On display
B-17G
Under restoration or in storage
B-17G

France

Airworthy
B-17G
Under restoration or in storage
B-17G

United Kingdom

Airworthy
B-17G
On display
B-17G

United States

Airworthy
B-17F
B-17G
On display
B-17E
B-17F
B-17G
Under restoration or in storage
B-17D
B-17E
B-17F
B-17G
B-17 being restored at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum
Tail of B-17 being restored at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum

See also

Notes

  1. 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.
  2. Another Suzy Q (s/n 41-2489), flying with the 93rd Bombardment Squadron was scrapped sometime after July 1946.

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