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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:B-17G Fortress
    Last Military Serial:43-38635 USAAF
    Construction Number:9613
    Last Civil Registration:N3702G
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-17G sn 43-38635 USAAF cn 9...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a B-17G-90-BO by Boeing at Seattle, Washington, USA.

    27 August 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-38635.

    Converted to a TB-17G.

    Converted to an EB-17G.

    Converted to an ETB-17G.

    Converted to a TB-17G.

    By 1959

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    July 1959

    To National Metals Company, Phoenix, AZ with new c/r N3702G.

    November 1959

    To Louis A. Kordish, Long Beach, CA keeping c/r N3702G.

    April 1960

    To Chas J. Fischer, Los Angeles, CA keeping c/r N3702G.

    From July 1960 to 1967

    To Fast-Way Air Service, Long Beach, CA keeping c/r N3702G.

    1960

    Converted to fire bomber.

    Markings Applied: E61


    Photographer: Robert Long


    Photographer: Robert Long


    Photographer: Robert Long


    Photographer: Jim Rouse


    Photographer: Jim Rouse


    Photographer: Robert Long

    From April 1967 to 1979

    To TBM Inc Tulare, CA keeping c/r N3702G.

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

    4 October 1967

    To unknown owner with c/r N3702G.
    Sale reported to a new owner in WP Air Base, OH.

    1 May 1970


    Photographer: Michael Huggins
    Notes: B-17G s/n 43-38635, N3702G, Firetanker #E61, Ontario Airport, CA. May 1970

    November 1979

    Loaned to Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, CA.
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    Restored as a B-17G.

    Markings Applied: Virgins Delight, A, 38635, N

    16 April 1980

    Civil registration, N3702G, cancelled.

    By October 1984


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Castle Air Museum, in Atwater, CA.

    1986


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    2 September 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    2 September 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    27 November 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA.

    27 November 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA.

    17 August 2024


    Photographer: Adam Estes
    Notes: Marked as B-17G 44-8444 Treble Four, the aircraft in which the namesake of Castle Airport and Castle Air Museum, earned a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions on December 24, 1944.

    17 August 2024


    Photographer: Adam Estes
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    B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress u The Queen Of The Skies
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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