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Flying Fortress/42-6107


Serial #: 42-6107
Construction #:
  6403 (-VE)
Civil Registration:
  N1340N
Model(s):
  B-17F
  TB-17F
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 1970
  History:
Dept. of Public Institutions, Clarkston, WA, 1946.
- Instructional airframe, became derelict.
Columbia Airmotive, Troutdale, OR, Nov. 18, 1953.
- Registered as N1340N.
Aero Enterprises, Troutdale, OR, 1954-1963.
- Flown as tanker #35.
King Baker/Aero Enterprises, Willows, CA & Fresno, CA, Sept. 13, 1964
- Flown as tanker #E34.
Aero Flite Inc, Cody, WY, Jan. 19, 1968-1970.
- Flown as tanker #A34.
- Re-Engined with 4 Rolls Royce Dart Turboprops, 1969.
- Crashed while fire bombing, Dubois, Yellowstone Park, WY, Aug. 18, 1970.


Prior to being fitted with the Dart Turboprops.

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):
Unknown.
Mike Walsh.