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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/41-9032
B-17 Flying Fortress 41-9302
Serial #: 41-9032
Construction #: 2504
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  B-17E Flying Fortress
Name: My Gal Sal
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2025
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 41-9032.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
- Ditched on ice cap, Greenland, June 27, 1942.
- On delivery to UK as My Gal Sal.
Gary Larkins/Institute of Aeronautical Archeological Research, Auburn, CA, August 1995.
- Dismantled and recovered 1995.
Tillamook NAS Air Museum, Tillamook, OR, 1995-1999.
- Stored dismantled in restoration hanger, Tillamook, 1999.
-- Stored with parts recovered from Alaskan crash site, 1996.
Robert E. Ready, Blue Ash Airport, Cincinnati, OH, March 14, 2000-2012.
- Under restoration for planned display as Greenland forced landing diorama.
National World War II Museum, New Orleans, LA, 2012-2025.
- Restored for display.
> - Displayed from ceiling as 19032/My Gal Sal.
B-17 Flying Fortress 41-9302
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-5th Edition, 2008.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2025.
Photo Source(s):
Krista Rose

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