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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:DB-17P Fortress
    Last Military Serial:44-83559 USAF
    Construction Number:32200
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-17G-85-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    3 April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-83559.

    5 April 1945

    Transferred to Air Transport Command, Topeka, KS.

    8 April 1945

    Transferred to 4100th Army Air Force Base Unit, ATC, Patterson Field, OH.

    16 June 1945

    Transferred to 4141st AAFBU, Air Material Command, Pyote, TX.

    15 October 1945

    Withdrawn from use.
    Declared excess to USAAF needs.

    7 November 1945

    Returned to military service.

    11 November 1945

    Transferred to 4168th AAFBU (TAC), Lubbock, TX.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-83559.

    17 February 1950

    Transferred to 2753rd Aircraft Storage Squadron (AMC), Pyote, TX.

    7 March 1950

    Transferred to Olmstead Field (AMC), Middletown Depot, PA.
    Sent to Olmstead for conversion.

    From March 1950 to By June 1950

    Converted to a DB-17P.

    22 June 1950

    Transferred to 3200th Drone Squadron, Air Proving Grounds (APG), Eglin AFB, FL.

    28 February 1951

    Transferred to 3200th Drone Squadron (APG), Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Island Group, Pacific.

    31 May 1951

    Transferred to 3200th Drone Squadron, Eglin AFB, FL.

    13 October 1952

    Transferred to 3205th Drone Squadron (APG), Holloman AFB, NM.

    16 October 1952

    Transferred to Eglin AFB, FL.

    8 July 1953

    Transferred to 3310th Technical Training Wing (APG), Scott AFB, IL.

    26 July 1953

    Transferred to 3205th Drone Group (APG), Eglin AFB, FL.

    10 September 1953

    Transferred to 3205th Drone Group (APG), Holloman AFB, NM.

    Transferred to Patrick AFB, FL.

    May 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.
    Dropped from the USAF inventory while at Patrick and issued as a museum piece.

    May 1959

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.
    View the Location Dossier

    1971

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1971

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.

    Markings Applied: King Bee, EP B, D 23474 B

    16 September 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    16 September 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    22 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Circa 1997

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Moved to new facility while under construction.

    16 May 1998

    Placed on display with Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    New museum opened.

    2001

    Loaned to Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name change.
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    Markings Applied: QJ S, C 483559 S
    Modified back to B-17G configuration.

    25 February 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    22 June 2015

    To Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name change.
    View the Location Dossier

    28 March 2021


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: Interior of DB-17 44-83559. Taken from the right waist-turret window


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    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Strategic Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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    Mike Henniger

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