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Postwar B-17
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:34 am
by b29flteng
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?
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:06 am
by P Bellamy
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
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:54 pm
by b29flteng
Here's the photo.
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:44 pm
by gary1954
I wonder how much drag was caused by the radar in the chin gun position
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:47 pm
by MarcKyle64
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!
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:53 am
by jmkendal
Didn't the 'Swoose'" set a whole bunch of records when they stripped her?
Re: Postwar B-17
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:55 pm
by aerovin2
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.