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Serial #: 44-6393 Construction #: 22616 (-DL) Civil Registration: CP-627 CP-891 Model: B-17G CB-17G VB-17G Name: Return To Glory Status: Static Display Last info: 2002 |
History: Delivered to USAAF, July 20, 1944. - Allocated to 15th Air Force, Italy, Aug. 1944. - Used by General Ira Eaker - Spent 10 months in combat. - Spent next 11 years as VIP aircraft (partial assignment list below). -- Served with 4112th Base Unit at Olmstead, FL. -- Served with 16th Air Depot, Bolling Field, Washington, DC. -- Served with 18th Maintenance & Supply Group, Clark AFB, Philipines. -- Served with 1130th Special Activities Group, Nanking, China.. Government Of Bolivia, June 1956. - Delivered from Davis-Monthan AFB stocks. - Civil conversion by Hamilton Aircraft, Tucson, AZ. Lloyd Aero Boliviano - LAB, La Paz, Jan. 1957. - Registered as CP-627. - Crashed La Paz-El Alto, Aug. 27, 1968. - Rebuilt using parts of CP-580/43-38322. Frigorifico Reyes, La Paz, Sep. 1969-1980. - Registered as CP-891. USAF Museum, March AFB, CA, Jan. 10, 1981-2002. - Delivered from La Paz. - Originally displayed as 230092/2nd Patches. - Restored, June 1997-June 1998. - Displayed as 46393/Second Patches. - Restored and repainted as "Y-1 Return To Glory", 1999. |
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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. Flypast Magazine No. 198, January 1998. |
Photo Source(s): Unknown. FP - Dave Allport. Mark Baldock Research Assistance: - |
