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42-107737 was Avon Park A-E1

Wonder what happened to her left cheek gun - missing in the 2024 photos

I believe she is sitting in a hanger at McGuire and no longer on the pole. Taken down in 2015.

Missing a few pages....

Was flying out of Clovis, but code is definitly U-77.

Slightly bent......

Chris Brame wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 11:47 pm Hmm. Base code or plane code, and port side only?

It could be the lighting on the right side.

Either way, in the report it clealy mentions ship F-176 so presumption it is field code.

Circle-F

CL-01Z Those aircraft which are not beyond ecnomical repair, transfered to Class 01Z CL-12 To a museum (aircraft no longer in USAF inventory) CL-25 Survey/surveyed CL-26 Mock up (aircraft no longer in USAF inventory) CL-26 Ground instruction only CL-26 Those aeronautical items (excluding complete ai...

I often wonder since a lot of the Bolivan B-17's crashed in inaccessable and inhosbitable terrain just how much wreckage might be recoverable - of course being 8,00 + feet AGL might be a bit rought to haul out.

Aircraft markings for the most part were very strictly standardized, which is one reason a person knowledgeable say for a B-24 can look at the camouflage scheme and tell if the aircraft was a Ford build vs a Consolidated ship (etc....). For a B-17 (especially for the early Boeing ships) there was mi...

Myth #10 all the late B-17F's had chin turrets.... * * * Let's add to the B-17 history: 1) The B-17 was designed as a long range medium bomber. 2) If WWII had started 1-year earlier or 1-year later, the B-17 would have been retired as obsolete as the F4F or TBD-1; Boeing was in talks with Consolidat...

We all have seen photos of Hobbs 92 at Kingman - but no serial attached.

She is 44-8064

Wonder if " 10" is 42-5153