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Serial #: 42-102715 Construction #: 8217 Civil Registration: N66573 Model(s): B-17G TB-17G Name: None Status: Destroyed Last info: 1998 |
History: Boy Scouts, Polo, IL, Sept. 1946-1952. - Displayed as memorial "Polo Queen". California Atlantic Airways, St. Petersburg, FL, Apr. 12, 1952 - Purchased for $600. - Registered as N66573. Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Sept. 8, 1953-1961. - Purchased for $130,000. - Litigation filed for ownership, $10,000 payed to Federal Government to relinquish it's claim on the title. - Flew as Batmobile #33 - Survey contracts in Middle East and SE Asia. Ewing Aviation, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 20, 1961. - Flew as #E85. Black Hills Aviation, Spearfish, SD (Later Alamagordo, NM), July 15, 1964-1979 - Flew as tanker #A10, #B10, #10. - Crashed while fire bombing, Cayuse Saddle, MT, July 1979. Mountain Flying Museum, Missoula, MT, 1998. - Acquired parts. |
N66573 in 1967, flying as a tanker for Black Hills Aviation.
Note: aircraft is still in the colors of Fairchild Aerial Surveys.
