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"Nine-O-Nine"
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Serial #: 44-83575 Construction #: 32216 (-DL) Civil Registration: N93012 Model(s): B-17G TB-17H SB-17G Name: Nine-O-Nine Status: Airworthy Last info: 2004 |
History: Delivered to USAAF as 44-83575, 19?? - Used in atomic tests, Yucca Flats, NV, 1952. - Abandoned at test site, 1952-1965. Valley Scrap Metal, Phoenix, AZ, Apr. 1965. Abe Sellards/Aircraft Specialties Inc, Mesa, AZ, May 5, 1965-1981 - Registered as N93012. - Rebuilt test site NV, ferried to Mesa on May 14, 1965. - Stored at Mesa, stripped for spares, 1969-1977. - Converted to tanker, Mesa, AZ, 1977. - Flew at tanker #99 "Lady of Yukka". Globe Air Inc., Mesa, AZ, Apr. 1981-1985. - Flew as tanker #99. Bob Collings/Collings Foundation, Stowe, MA, Oct. 1985-2004. - Delivered from Mesa, AZ to Kissimee, FL Jan. 1, 1987. -- Restored to military configuration. - Crashed while landing, Beaver County, PA, Jan. 28, 1987. - Repaired, Delivered to Kissimee for full restoration, Jan. 1991. - Flown as 231909/Nine-O-Nine/A-R. - Undercarraige collapse, Sioux City, IA (repaired, July 10, 1995. |
Adversaries meet for the first time on the ground!.
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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. Photo Source(s): Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2002 Richard Lockett - Goleta Air & Space Museum, http://www.air-and-space.com/home.htm, 2002. W. Redmond. Milo Peltzer. Jim "Neon" Harley. |
