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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/42-6107

Serial #: 42-6107
Construction #: 6403 (-VE)
Civil Registration:
  N1340N

Model(s):
  B-17F Flying Fortress
  TB-17F Flying Fortress
Name: None
Status: Wrecked
Last info: 1970

History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-6107.
- BOC: July 23, 1943.
- SOC: 19??.
- Used as TB-17F Trainer.
- Released to RFC, Altus, OK, after November 1945.
Department of Public Institutions, Clarkston, WA, 1946-1953.
- Instructional airframe, became derelict.
- Derelict by 1953.
Bob Sturges/Columbia Airmotive, Troutdale, OR, November 18, 1953.
- Registered as N1340N.
Bob Sturges/Aero Enterprises, Troutdale, OR, December 7, 1953-1964.
- Ferried from Clarkston to Troutdale, February 1954.
- Stored.
- Converted to fire tanker at Klamath Falls, July 1961.
- Flown as tanker #A34.
- Operated by Mel Lengren, July 1961.
Willis “King” Baker/Aero Enterprises, Willows, CA & Fresno, CA, September 13, 1964-1969
- Flown as tanker #E34.
Aero Flite Inc, Cody, WY, January 19, 1968-1970.
- Flown as tanker #A34.
- Re-Engined with 4 Rolls Royce Dart Turboprops & Rotol propellers from a United Airlines Vickers Viscount, Twin Falls, ID, 1970.
- Crashed while fire bombing, Dubois, Yellowstone Park, WY, August 18, 1970.
-- Crew Ray Elgin & John Bastian fatally injured.

Prior to being fitted with the Dart Turboprops.

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