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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/44-83735

Serial #: 44-83735
Construction #:
  32376 (-DL)
Civil Registration:
  NL68269
  N68629
  F-URET
  F-BDRS

Model(s):
  B-17G Flying Fortress
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2025

History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 44-83735.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
Transocean Air Lines Inc., Oakland, CA, February 17, 1947.
- Purchased from War Assets Administration, open storage at Altus, OK.
- Registered as NL68269.
- Converted to executive configuration.
-- Fitted with airstair door, lounge and bar, passenger windows with curtains.
Col. Andres Soriano/San Miguel Brewery, Manila, Philippines, 1947-1949.
- Flew as "San Miguel".
Assembley of God Inc, Springfield, MO, October 4, 1949-1951.
- Registered as N68269.
- Flew as Ambassador II.
- Modified with executive interior.
- Flew to Mexico, January 1950.
- Visited 37 other countries on church business.
Leeward Aeronautical, Fort Wayne, IN, November 7, 1951.
Delivered to Armee de l’Air as F-URET, 1951-1952.
- Named The Ambassador.
- Used as a VIP transport in civil colour scheme.
Institut Geographic National, Creil, August 23, 1952-1975.
- Registered as F-BDRS.
- Withdrawn from service, stripped, by 1972.
Ted White & Don Bullock/Euroworld Ltd., Duxford, UK, May 24, 1975-1978.
Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK, 1978.
American Air Museum, Duxford, UK, circa 1997-2025.
- Restored for static display.
- Displayed as 231983/IV-G/Mary Alice/Y-G.
- Restored and repainted with no name, 2011-2013.

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