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From an unusual and costly eBay listing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135606143291

Middle Eastern command; anyone recognize the insignia?

Steve Birdsall wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:51 pm Finally, 40-3092 returned to the U.S. in October 1942.

And eventually ended up with Yale University. (Scott, should '092 be added to the RFC/WAA list for that reason?)

Currently on eBay: Drew V4 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54310384634_fbb4ea1143_h.jpg https://www.ebay.com/itm/196984256593 42-30052 taken at Avon Park but it was mostly based in the Northwest https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54309276917_11e70f0ebb_h.jpg https://www.ebay.com/itm/396163119452

http://img-cdn.filefactory.com/embed/xl/5241aebvlyok.jpg A high-resolution version of the NARA Kodachrome image of Redmond Annie turned up recently. Unfortunately, the serial number is still unclear, but I believe I can read enough of it to establish that it’s a Douglas Long Beach B-17F, serial beg...

Interesting paint job; anyone recognize it? Stamped on back Greenwood Army Air Field, Greenwood, Mississippi.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/396126663747

Was going to do an Attn shoppers on this one but it's so good I gave myself a Christmas present. B-17G trainer 42-102885; one of the small batches that bypassed Cheyenne and went straight into training. #233 on nose and tail indicate service at Laredo AAF: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5424064...

With all the QB-17s that were shot down over land, are there any crash sites that have been explored/documented?

Class 12 - museum aircraft? Guess they changed their minds. Same thing happen to 42-102737?

I ordered the photo of 42-102737 as Keesler, and the seller sent the wrong photo - but an interesting one nonetheless: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54159016854_1bcf12078b_h.jpg 44-8095, coded "147", formerly at Roswell as seen here: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54158710206_3c256415c3_b...

1948 insignia - I think we have a winner! Thanks terveurn!
Just bought it so I'll try to do a better scan when it gets here.
(Odd how the serial number faded so fast but the codes didn't.)

On eBay at the moment, taken at Keesler; note the 1948 insignia: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54131682919_0d12a4671d_o.png 42-102737 looks like a possible match - skipped Cheyenne, based at Avon, then to Keesler and hung around postwar: 42-102737 Del McDill 31/3/44; 326 BU McDill 13/2/45; 325...

Did Yankee Lady ever get a nose swap during its career? It looks like after its USCG use the cheek gun nose was replaced with one from a trainer that didn't go through the Cheyenne mods.

42-3515 was a combat veteran per Osborne: 42-3515 Del Denver 21/7/43; Hill 20/8/43; Ass 423BS/306BG [RD-O] Thurleigh 21/9/43; tran 482BG Alconbury 30/3/44; RetUS Bradley 4/6/44; RFC Kingman 19/11/45. No cheek gun positions and a tapered fairing on the tail stinger; some general's ride? https://live....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296593460656

All three sold, so here they are: