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Flying Fortress/42-32076


Serial #: 42-32076
Construction #: 7190
Civil Registration:
  SE-BAP
  OY-DFA
  F-BGSH
Model: B-17G
Name: Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby
Status: Display
Last info: 2002

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  History:
Delivered to USAAF as 42-32076, 19??.
- Allocated to the 91st BG/401st BS/"Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby"
- Interned, Bulltofta, Malmo, Sweden, May 29, 1944.
SAAB, Nov. 2, 1945.
- Registered as SE-BAP for test flight.
DDL-Danish Airlines, Nov. 5, 1945-1947
- Registered as OY-DFA.
- Flown as "Stig Viking"
- Belly laned at Blackbushe, UK, Nov. 27, 1945.
- Repaired, delivered to DDL-Copenhagen on Feb. 25, 1946
- Withdrawn from use June 25, 1947.
Delivered to Royal Danish AAC as 67-672, Mar. 31, 1948
- Flown as "Store Bjoern".
Delivered to Royal Danish Navy as 67-672, Dec. 1, 1949-1952.
Delivered to Royal Danish AF as 67-720, Oct. 24, 1952.
- Retired, stored. Oct. 1, 1953.
Babb Co Inc, New York, NY, Feb. 2, 1955.
Institut Geographique National, Creil, Apr. 6, 1955-1972.
- Registered as F-BGSH.
- Last flight July 15, 1961.
- Retired at Creil, became derelict.
USAF Museum, Jan. 23, 1972-1988
- Hulk donated by French government.
- Airfreighted dismantled to Wright-Patterson AFB, Feb. 4, 1972.
- Airfreighted to Dover AFB for restoration, July 1972.
USAFM, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, Oct. 1988-2002
- Delivered from Dover AFB on Oct. 13, 1988.
- Displayed as 232076/91st BG/"Shoo Shoo Baby".

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.
Photo Source(s):
Linda Carry.
USAF Museum.