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Serial #: 44-85738 Construction #: 8647 (-VE) Civil Registration: None Model(s): B-17G DB-17G EDB-17G DB-17G Name: Preston's Pride Status: Display Last info: 2002 |
History: Delivered to USAAF as 44-85738. - BOC: May 18, 1945. - SOC: Aug. 1958. - Placed in storage, Syracuse, NY, 1945. - Transferred to storage ar Garden City, KS, 1945. - Assigned to Operation "Corssroads", February, 1946. -- Used as drone controller for atomic tests, Summer, 1946. - Assigned to the 509th Composite Group. - Transferred to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 19?? - Redesignated DB-17G on June 18, 1948. - Redesignated EDB-17G on June 2, 1949. - Assigned to Air Proving Grounds, Eglin AFB, FL, Mar. 1950. - Used as drone director at Eglin and at Roswell AFB, NM. - Designated DB-17G on Dec. 5, 1954. - Withdrawn from use, Aug. 1958. AMVETS Chapter 56, Tulare, CA, Aug. 4, 1958-2002. - Displayed Perry's Coffe House, Tulare, CA, 1971-1981. - Displayed AMVETS compound, Tulare, CA, 1981-1992 -- Damaged by truck running off highway (repaired), Aug. 1982. - Displayed as 0-85738/K. |
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):
Tony Andrews.