The B-17 at the Museum of Aviation in Georgia

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2022 10:29 am

Anyone have an update on how the restoration of this B-17 is coming along?

bomberfan · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2022 11:07 am

It has come quite a ways from the last time I saw it. A recent post on Facebook shows as largely externally complete. It looks like they're doing small detail work at the moment and probably filling out the interior.

K5DH · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:15 am

I saw it in person back in March. It's looking very, very good! I am amazed at the amount (and quality) of work they've accomplished. Still a lot to do, of course, but they are making great progress.

JohnB · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:59 am

Not having my copy of The Final Cut at hand...

Isn't that the one the NASM had for decades and never touched...or even displayed?

Thomas_Mac · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:15 pm

JohnB wrote:

Not having my copy of The Final Cut at hand...

Isn't that the one the NASM had for decades and never touched...or even displayed?

I believe the one you are thinking of is at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
https://www.mightyeighth.org/b-17-exhibit/

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:54 am

JohnB wrote:

Not having my copy of The Final Cut at hand...

Isn't that the one the NASM had for decades and never touched...or even displayed?

The one at the Museum of Aviation came from the Grissom Air Museum in Indiana.

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:42 am

Pat Carry wrote:

JohnB wrote:

Not having my copy of The Final Cut at hand...

Isn't that the one the NASM had for decades and never touched...or even displayed?

The one at the Museum of Aviation came from the Grissom Air Museum in Indiana.

imagine they found quite a bit of corrosion.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11327

Pat Carry wrote:

imagine they found quite a bit of corrosion.

I happened to be at the museum the day it arrived. There was surprisingly little corrosion.

JohnB · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:08 pm

Thanks for the correction.

I saw her at Grissom in 2011, she looked to me most other AFB outside statics.

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2642

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mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2022 9:01 pm

Most of the corrosion was in the radio room and nose because the plane was displayed for many years with the tail raised. It wasn’t horrible but the main gusset in bombbay had corroded off completely. I worked on the plane for a while.

Noha307 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:53 pm

It's not recent, but they did post a series of restoration updates a while back:

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