B-17C Update

[suzyQ194]

20-2047 is on government land and declared government property and probably on the national register of historic places. The United States government owns it if one sues them in court one looses look at the b 29 in Lake Mead on the registry of historic places on national park service land. Someone sure 2 times to get it and lost.

[terveurn]

40-2047 is on government land and declared government property and probably on the national register of historic places. The United States government owns it if one sues them in court one looses look at the b 29 in Lake Mead on the registry of historic places on national park service land. Someone sure 2 times to get it and lost.

40-2047 is easily obtainable; win the lottery and donate say a million dollars to the Department of the Interior Cabinet member.

You want the Lake Mead B-29, donate another million dolars (perferably in small bills) and thell the official you are a member of some green enviromental group trying to clean the lake. Do not think it would work on the Lake Washington PB4Y-2 (the USN claims everything {even post WWII aircraft sold}) still belongs to them

Air Force already has given-up all claims to aircraft before 1960.

Court systems are for people who want to lose, paper bags full of greenbacks are a lot cheaper and a lot faster

[jmkendall]

Lol@tevern,

Greenpeace..you are probably right.

In the really early 70s my Boy Scout Troop was doing a required cross-country hike for some badge. You know the sort that you use your map and compass and just hike out into the woods. We found a relatively intact B-17 and informed the Rangers.

Our Scout Master contacted a museum who was very interested in getting the Aircraft. The forestry department turned them down flat when they were approached for a permit. They were finally able to get a congressman or Senator interested and were granted a permit...a week or two after a Greenpeace group cut it up and scrapped it for beer money...the same group that later scrapped a fairly intact Navy Fighter a few years later. Even after receiving some seriously negative press over the scrapping of the B-17.

It is truely amazing how many WW2 aircraft survived into the 70s only to be scrapped or crashed before the great warbird movement.

[Chris Brame]

In the really early 70s my Boy Scout Troop was doing a required cross-country hike for some badge. You know the sort that you use your map and compass and just hike out into the woods. We found a relatively intact B-17 and informed the Rangers.

Any chance of an ID on that B-17? I imagine most crash sites are recorded by now.

[terveurn]

In the really early 70s my Boy Scout Troop was doing a required cross-country hike for some badge. You know the sort that you use your map and compass and just hike out into the woods. We found a relatively intact B-17 and informed the Rangers.

Any chance of an ID on that B-17? I imagine most crash sites are recorded by now.

Pretty sure there are still a lot of WWII wrecks still unaccounted for, majority being single engine trainers however, there were a bunch of 4-engine ships (including B-29) that went MIA during training and transition that just up and vanished.

The greenies do not care about history; they also have a hatred of people. Even if you can get a permit, if given the opportunity they will find a way of sabataging any type of recovery