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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/42-3455

Serial #: 42-3455
Construction #: 8391
Civil Registration:
  None

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

History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-3455.
- BOC: June 24, 1943
- SOC: November 11, 1943
- Assigned to 546th BS/384th BG/41st BW, 1st Air Division, VIII Bomber Command, US 8th Air Force.
- Based at RAF Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Kettering, England.
- Flew as “Lucky Thirteen”.
- Shot down near Beauvais, France, September 6, 1943.
Parts salvaged at crash site by Garard Lequien, circa 2000.
Ray Moore/Hangar 13 Inc, Asheville, NC, 2009-2025.
- Parts used as the basis for composite project as WWII memorial.
- Sections from B-17Gs 44-83316, 44-85813, and 44-83542 also used.

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