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Flying Fortress/44-83722


Serial #: 44-83722
Construction #: 32363
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  B-17G
  B-17H
  TB-17H
  SB-17G
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2002
  History:
Delivered to USAAF as 44-83722, 19??.
- Used in Atomic tests, Yuca Flats, NV, 1952-1965.
-- Badly damaged.
-- Abandoned at test site, 1952-1965.
Valley Scrap Metal, Phoenix, AZ, 1965
- Hulk.
Aircraft Specialties Inc., Mesa, AZ, 1965-1981
- Trucked from NV - Mesa, May 1965.
- Used for spare parts.
Globe Air, Mesa, AZ, Feb. 1981-1985
- Hulk stored.
Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami, FL, 1985-2002
- Stored Ocotillo Wells, CA, 1988-2001.

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):
None.