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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/41-2446

Serial #: 41-2446
Construction #: 2257
Civil Registration:
  None

Model(s):
  B-17E Flying Fortress
Name: Swamp Ghost
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2025

History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 41-2446.
- BOC: December 6, 1941.
- Assigned to 7th Bomb Group/22nd Bomb Squadron.
- Forced landing, Agaiambo Swamp, Papua, New Guinea, February 23, 1942.
-- Only minor damage, essentially complete.
- Abandoned, 1942-1991.
Travis Historical Society, Travis AFB, CA, 1985-1994.
- Recovery planned.
David Tallichet/MARC, Chino, CA, June 1999-2012
- Acquired salvage rights, 1999.
Alfred Hagen/Aero Archaeology Ltd, 2001.
- Acquired salvage rights, 1999.
Alfred Hagen & Robert Greinert syndicate, 2006-2010
- Salvaged May 2006.
- Dismantled and airlifted out by Mi-8 helicopter.
- Stored in Lae pending export approval, May 18, 2006.
- Shipped to U.S., 2010.
- Stored pending placement in a museum, Chino, CA, 2010.
Planes of Fame, Chino CA: December 3, 2010-2012.
- On Loan.
Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, Ford Island, HI, 2012-2019.
- Displayed in recovered condition.
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford Island, HI, 2018-2025.

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