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Serial #: 44-83868 Construction #: 32509 (-DL) Civil Registration: N5237V N6466D N5237V Model(s): B-17G PB-1W Name: None Status: Static Display Last info: 2002 |
History: Delivered as PB-1W to USN as BuNo 77233 - BOC: July 17, 1945. - SOC: July 10, 1956 American Compressed Steel Corp, Dallas, TX, Dec., 1957-1960. - Registration N6466D reserved but not taken uo, Dec. 1957. - Registered as N5237V. - Stored unconverted, marked as USN XD-2, Dallas-Love Airport, 1958-1960. Ashland Corp, Tucson, AZ, Feb. 29, 1960. Marson Equipment & Salvage Co, Tucson, AZ, July 7, 1960-1961. Aero Union Corp, Anderson, CA, Sept. 27, 1961. Calvin J. Butler/Butler Farm Air/Butler Aircraft Corp, Richmond, OR, Dec. 1961-1971. - Flown as tanker #E15 (later #F15, then #65). TBM Inc, Sequoia, CA, 1979-1983. - Flown as tanker #65. RAF Museum, Hendon, Dec. 9, 1983-2002. - Converted back to military configuration as 483868 at Sequoia, CA. - Delivered to RAF Bize Norton. |
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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): Mike Walsh. Unknown. Rob Leigh. |
