Aero Vintage Books

found at Alamy

It looks like it is marked as an SB-17.

Card does not show any trips to Rome ATSC for SB-17 conversion - last station was Pratt (which was a B-29 OTU field)

My thinking was it might be high visibility markings - for instrument or formation work.

It is another Altus ship (like a bunch of other RFC aircraft)

Very interesting to see it sitting all by itself with the star-and-bar stripped off (or painted over in silver) - could this another short-lived postwar memorial or school teaching aid? Looks like it lost half the fin de-icer boot along the way.

Chris Brame wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:38 pm Very interesting to see it sitting all by itself with the star-and-bar stripped off (or painted over in silver) - could this another short-lived postwar memorial or school teaching aid? Looks like it lost half the fin de-icer boot along the way.

Pretty sure it was a memorial -- has all the looks and feel of another attempt at preserving one of these B-17 (and the reason I posted it under RFC heading)

Interesting that even the chin turret has been removed.

Wondering if this is the Cumberland B-17

Yes, those are probably locally applied stripes for instrument/proficiency training. 2AF used B-17s throughout B-29 Phase training because there were never enough B-29s available to get all the crews' their hours. Generally the airplanes got yellow stripes on wings etc. but the markings seemed to vary throughout 2AF.