Originally posted by Mark Allen.Some of these guys are no longer with us but several still are in various states of either flying condition or restoration. Source SDASM archives. Charles M. Daniels Collection.
Sold as surplus to a commercial user sometime after WWII. Eventually wound up in Great Britain and used for film production. Reportedly scrapped in 1961.
Delivered to USAAF as 44-83684. Converted to DB-17, then DB-17P. This aircraft made the last operational B-17 mission as a drone controller in 1959. Eventually sold to the civilian market as N3713G. Starred as ""Piccadilly Lily"" on the '60s TV show ""Twelve O'Clock High"". On static display at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA. Now undergoing restoration to airworthy.
Delivered to USAAF as 43-38322. Eventually to Lloyd Aero Boliviano of Bolivia as CB-80 Aug 5, 1981. Later reserialed as CP-580 Oct 1, 1954. Crashed at La Paz Feb 7, 1965 and rebuilt. To Frogorifico Reyes as CP-936 in 1971. Crashed at San Ignacio de Moxos, Bolivia Feb 11, 1972. Parts used in restoration of 44-6393.
Delivered to USAAF as 44-83872. Transferred to US Navy as PB-1W Bu. No. 77235. Eventually to the Commemorative Air Force flying as ""Texas Raiders"", N7227C. Still airworthy.
Deliverd to USAAC as 41-9210. Many owners post war. Seen here with Compania Boliviana de Aviacion, La Paz, Bolivia, registered as CP-753. Eventually returned to the U.S. Now registered as N12355 and undergoing restoration to flightworthy by the Flying Heritage Collection of Seattle, WA.
Delivered to USAAF as 44-85734. To Pratt & Whitney for use as a turboprop test bed. To the New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT. Eventually restored to airworthy and became the ""Liberty Belle"". The aircraft was destroyed in a forced landing and fire in June of 2011 in Illinois
Delivered to USAAF as 44-83873. To the Navy as PB-1W, Bu. No. 77236. Eventually to Canada as CF-JJH. Scrapped in 1962.
Sold as surplus to a commercial user sometime after WWII. Eventually wound up in Great Britain and used for film production. Reportedly scrapped in 1961
Delivered to USAAF as 44-83525. Part of the Tallmantz collection in the mid '60s. Flown in the 1969 film ""The Thousand Plane Raid"" as "Balls of Fire". Eventually sold to Kermit Weeks where it is undergoing restoration at his Fantasy of Flight museum in Florida.
Not sure that the story is on this unidentified B-17
Delivered to USAAF as 44-85778. Converted to TB-17G, then to VB-17G. Through many owners after the war. Eventually to Aero Union as aerial tanker #16 as pictured. Eventually to the Palm Springs Air Museum in 1993. Still flying as "Miss Angela".
Delivered to USAAF as 44-85824. To the Coast Guard as PB-1G, Bu. No. 77250. Shown in civilian hands, ca. 1957-59. Eventually to Bolivia as CP-694. Crashed and destroyed in December of '63.
Delivered to USAAF as 44-85806. To the Coast Guard as PB-1G, Bu. No. 77245. Sold to a commercial operator as an aerial sprayer (as shown). To Bolivian Air Systems, Bolivia as CP-762 in 1964. Destroyed in December of that year.
Delivered to USAAF as 44-85840. To Lloyd Aero Boliviano, Bolivia as CP-620. Back to the U.S. with Aircraft Specialties of Arizona as N620L. Used in the 1969 film ""Tora, Tora, Tora"". Converted to fire tanker # C54 (54). Destroyed in a crash in Nevada in 1973.
Delivered to USAAC as 41-2599 at Lowry Field, CO. Named ""Tugboat Annie."" Eventually to Hickam Field, HI. Ditched at sea in January, 1943. Participant in the Battle of Midway.