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Attn shoppers: Still more trainers

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 8:18 pm
by Chris Brame
B-17F 41-24625; both Baugher and Osborne list this as based at Geiger Field, and that this was a forced landing at Stewart Field in West Point, NY on July 25, 1943:
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That's the first time I've seen a second ADF football mounted in the nose like that; anyone know more?
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B-17F trainers 42-30877 and 42-30917 being bounced by a P-40N; '877 is coded "17", appropriately enough, over a previous code; '917 is coded "20" on its nose. '877 later went to Hobbs per Osborne - terveurn, do you have a shot of it there?
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Note both have their tailwheels extended. Any guess where this is? Florida?
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Re: Attn shoppers: Still more trainers

Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:32 am
by terveurn
42-30917 is a new one for the files

42-30877

From the nose number on 42-30917 this style looks like Hendricks

This is the third B-17 from Hendricks coded "17", all three were: 38-270, 42-30917, 42-102865

Also note the colored engine cowlings.
42-30877 hobbs.jpg