Postwar B-17

b29flteng · Post by **b29flteng** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:34 am

I saw a photo of a postwar B-17 in a MATS paint job with a red tail. The serial number was 483706. I couldn't locate it in any serial number listing such as Joe Baugher's. Any pne have a history of it?

P Bellamy · Post by **P Bellamy** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:06 am

There is an accident report listed for B-17G-95-DL 44-83706.

13th April 1946.
TB-17H 44-83706 of 1385th AAF Base Unit, ATC.
Landing Accident at Bluie West 1, Greenland.

Other than that I haven't found anything else as yet.

All the best,
Paul Bellamy

b29flteng · Post by **b29flteng** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:54 pm

Here's the photo.

gary1954 · Post by **gary1954** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:44 pm

I wonder how much drag was caused by the radar in the chin gun position

MarcKyle64 · Post by **MarcKyle64** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:47 pm

I don't know, but it should be better with there being no belly turret, top turret, canvas gun covers, and .50 cal muzzles poking out into the wind!

I wonder how fast a de-armored C or D with the engines and props from the G would go!

jmkendal · Post by **jmkendal** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:53 am

Didn't the 'Swoose'" set a whole bunch of records when they stripped her?

Post by **aerovin2** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:55 pm

b29flteng wrote:I saw a photo of a postwar B-17 in a MATS paint job with a red tail. The serial number was 483706. I couldn't locate it in any serial number listing such as Joe Baugher's. Any pne have a history of it?

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Most of the record card is apparently missing but it was last recorded as operating as a TB-17G and "reclaimed" at Hill AFB in 1957.

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