B-17G 44-85806/N117W photo

[Chris Brame]

Just uploaded to Lynn Ritger's Central Repository for Aviation Photos (aka CRAP) on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406 ... 62/sizes/l
Don't think I've seen this one before.

[aerovin2]

Nor have I ever seen a view of this airplane marked as such. Amazing these views continue to surface. I need to find out if I can secure usage of that photo...

From Final Cut:

Vega built B-17G accepted on June 22, 1945. Transferred to the USCG as PB-1G 77245. Served until December 1955 and then released as surplus. Sold on October 26, 1956, to Delta Leasing Corp., Charlotte, NC as N7739B. On February 7, 1957, it was sold to the Biegert Brothers of Shickley, NB, who requested the special registration of N117W be assigned, and it was subsquently used as an aerial sprayer. Sold in December 1964, to Bolivian Air Systems, La Paz, Bolivia, as CP-762. It was damaged or destroyed in an accident shortly afterwards, on December 16, 1964, at Lapa (near La Paz) and the wreckage subsequently scrapped.

[aerovin2]

B-17G Flying Fortress N117W Sprayer -Late 1950s by Central Repository for Aviation Photos, on Flickr