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Serial #: 44-83884
Construction #:
  32525 (-DL)
Civil Registration:
  N5230V
  N6471D
  N5230V
Model(s):
  B-17G
  PB-1W
Name: Yankee Doodle II
Status: Static Display
Last info: 2002
  History:
Delivered to US Navy as BuNo. 77244
- BOC: July 25, 1945.
- SOC: July 10, 1956.
American Compressed Steel Corp., Dallas, TX, Dec. 2, 1957-1960
- Registration N6471D reserved but not issued, Dec. 1957.
- Registered as N5230V.
- Stored unconverted, marked as XD-10, Dallas-Love, 1958-1961
Marson Equipment & Salvage Co, Tucson, AZ, Oct. 18, 1960-61.
Aero Union Corp, Chico, CA, Sep. 27, 1961-1979
- Flew as tanker #C19, #E19 & #19.
8th AF Museum, Barksdale AFB, LA, 1980-2002.
- Initially displayed as 338289/Yankee Doodle II.
- Later displayed as 483884/Yankee Doodle II.

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):
Ron Olsen.
Tony Andrews
Unknown.