B-17C Parts?

[DryMartini]

Anyone own any early model B-17 parts?

[DIK SHEPHERD]

Only Y1B-17.

[partschaser]

With all the talk about which B-17 parts work with a C model, I want to throw in that there is a TO which covers B-17 parts interchangeability:

TO 01-20E-16 B-17 Series - Boeing

Now the only trick (or treat) is to find one.

Bill K.

[gary1954]

*Rummaging through Desk and storage shed looking for a Bomber*

[miketull]

Is it possible to recover parts from the B-17C that crashed in the Sierra Nevada between Reno and Sacramento. I believe that a B-17C crashed somewhere around Big Bear.

[DryMartini]

Short answer: Yes, it is possible.

HOWEVER,
the wreck is on federal land, and
is therefore covered under federal
laws, which require a bulldozer to get
through the bureaucracy, and $$$ to
comply with "environmental and archological
surveys" which will need to be done before
removal permission will be granted.

An act of Congress (which does not involve
earmarks and extra taxes attached to it)
allowing its removal would be nice.

Anyone know a high ranking, pro-military-leaning
congressman?

[miketull]

Then the B-17C that crashed somewehere around Big Bear, is that also on Federal Land. So how is the restoration of your B-17C coming along?

[DryMartini]

I am not aware of that particular wreck. Can
you provide more information, or maybe a
picture or two?

The B-17C project is in the back seat to
"The Rat", as that is more important right now.
As we make parts, anything that can be used on the
C model is being made too. Once the Rat is off the
jog, we'll start on the C model's fuselage.
We have the stringers, longerons, and several
forward fuselage bulkheads either in house or
being worked.

[miketull]

I was mistaken, I should have said the YB-17, 36-157, crash at IDYLLWILD, CA between Palm Sptings, CA. and Hemet, CA.. Two other early models B-17's were, B-17, 36-154 MARCH FIELD, CA, and B-17 ,36-150 MARCH FIELD, CA but I don't know if they were write offs. I am also checking into B-17D 40-3072 which, I think went off the end of the runway at Adams Field, Little rock, AR. after a hydraulic failure on landing.

[DryMartini]

I believe Dik Sheppard is very familiar with that YB-17 wreck.

[MarcKyle64]

I was mistaken, I should have said the YB-17, 36-157, crash at IDYLLWILD, CA between Palm Sptings, CA. and Hemet, CA.. Two other early models B-17's were, B-17, 36-154 MARCH FIELD, CA, and B-17 ,36-150 MARCH FIELD, CA but I don't know if they were write offs. I am also checking into B-17D 40-3072 which, I think went off the end of the runway at Adams Field, Little rock, AR. after a hydraulic failure on landing.

I've lived in the Little Rock area for 33 years, been down to Pine Bluff to the confederate air force chapter meetings, driven round the Adams field perimeter, visited whenever a warbird has landed within an hour's drive. There was a B-58 hulk at Little Rock Air Force base for quite a while that I saw whenever there was an open house or my father went on base, but it was broken up a while back. There's 2 dead DC-3/C-47's nearby and the CAF's A-26 had a broken wing spar and was no longer flyable at the last meeting I went to...but...there's not been a whisper about a mystery B-17 wreck stored in a hangar here. I wish there was, I would have been all over it and found the thing! One other thing, if it went off the end of the runway, odds are 50/50 it went into the Arkansas River. One other B-17 crashed here that I know about, it was south of Benton while on a training flight killing all on board, and I've visited that site, it's been scrubbed clean and a memorial sign's erected there.

[miketull]

The B-17D that had an accident on 0410 CST 21 June 1941 was 40-3072. It was on loan from the 19th Bomb Group to the 7th Bomb Group, 22nd Bomber Squadron at Salt Lake City, UT. The aircraft departed Salt Lake City at 19:10:00 MST 20 June 1941 and landed at Wichita 23:05:00 MST. The aircraft departed Wichita at 00:20:00 and the accident occurred at 02:10:00 MST at Little Rock. The weather was clear and unlimited for the whole flight. They called Little Rock radio station to ask for field conditions were given a report that the field was OK and runway lenght of 3,680 feet. It was stated that there were 50' trees at the end of the runway. The aircraft made a hard landing about 1/3 of the runway from the start of the runway and bounced fifteen feet into the air, and then bounced again. The pilot intentionally ground-looped the airplane so as not to go through the fence. As it came to a stop it grazed a post of the fence surrounding the field and tore a holein the under surface. It also dented the right horizontal stabilizer. The aircraft was repaired by San Antonio Air Depot at Duncan Field, Texas. The other B-17 that crashed six miles northeast of Sheridan was B-17F 42-29532 from Smoky Hill AAF, Salina, KS on a flight to Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida.

[miketull]

Corection; I should have said that B-17F 42-29532 crashed six miles NORTHWEST of Sheridan, Arkansas.

[miketull]

I just now found information on the internet that B-17D 40-3072 was destroyed by strafing at Pasirian, Indonesia on 22 FEB, 1942.