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Serial #: 41-23908 Construction #: 393 Civilian Registration: None Model: B-24D-10-CO Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2002 |
History: Built at the Consolidated factory, Fort Worth, TX, 194?. Delivered to USAAF as 41-23908, Sept. 1942. - Assigned to Great Falls Army Air Field, MT, Nov 21, 1942. - Transferred to Elmendorf AAF, AK, Dec. 4, 1942. - Assigned to the 21st BS (Heavy)/28th Composite Group. -- Based out of Umnak Island (later Adak). -- Crash landed on Great Sitkin island due to bad weather and low fuel, Jan. 18, 1943. Wreckage discovered by Aerospace Heritage Foundation, UT, summer 1994. Hill Aerospace Museum, 1995-2002. - Recovered, Summer 1995. - Shipped to restoration facility in CA, 1995. - Restored fuselage arrived at museum, May 17, 2002. - Restoration of other components continues. |
Hill Aerospace Museum, www.hill.af.mil/museum/, 2002
Patrick Carry
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
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