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 beginning 42-30, but the last two digits . . . ?
I've noticed this in a couple other photos - the data block is often in just the right spot for the #2 prop to fling oil/water/ice at it.
A few F-model trainers showed up on eBay last week; sold for too much $$ but I saved the images.
42-5302(?) and 42-5265; AAIR accident lists 302 as a bailout/fire loss in Florida in 1944:
42-5265 again:
42-5728; note the fuselage art ahead of the star, and the T-shaped tail marking on the plane in the background. 728 shows up in a couple AAIR accident reports as being at Moses Lake and Great Falls in 1943:
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 beginning 42-30, but the last two digits . . . ?
To quote Bruno Stachel: "Con-FIRMED!" Taken at Dalhart, TX but still carrying the Redmond plane code "29".
David Osborne wrote:42-5097 Del Geiger 26/9/42; Redmond 26/12/42; Pueblo 7/2/43; Dalhart 16/5/43; 247 BU Smoky Hill 26/6/43; 4136 BU Tinker 27/6/43; 232 BU Dalhart 26/8/43; 244 BU Harvard 2/9/43; 249 BU Alliance 16/12/43; 519 BU Fort Worth; 244 BU Harvard 20/1/44; 202 BU Galveston 15/2/44; 237 BU Kirtland 25/5/44; RFC Kingman 27/10/45.
