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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/44-83814

     

Serial #: 44-83814
Construction #: 32455 (-DL)
Civil Registration:
  N66571
  CF-HBP

Model(s):
  B-17G Flying Fortress
Name: City of Savannah
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2025

History:
Delivered to the United States Army Air Force as 44-83814.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
North Dakota Public School District, Hazen, ND, 1947-1951.
Owen W. Williams/California Atlantic Airways, St. Petersberg, FL, June 20, 1951-1953.
- Registered as N66571.
- Acquired from school.
- Rebuilt to airworthy.
-- Large cargo door installed, April 1952.
- Arrived in Pakistan for survey, December 24, 1952.
- Returned to Canada, February 1953.
- Ferried via Prestwick, MArch 23, 1953.
Kenting Aviation Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 14, 1953-1971.
- Registered as CF-HBP, May 12, 1953.
- Returned to Pakistan, November 1953.
- Operated for Photographic Survey Corp, Toronto, Ontario, 1954-1960.
-- Flew freught fo Alaskan DEW Line project, March 19555.
- Operated for Hunting Survey Corp, Toronto, Ontario, February 11, 1960-1962.
-- Suffered No. 1 Engine fire over Pacific Ocean enroute to Christmas Island-Bora Bora, October 22, 1958.
-- Returned to RAF Christmas Island for repair.
-- Flew Fiji-Auckland-Sydney-Biak during a magnetometer survey of Pacific Ocean areas, November 1958.
- Operated for Photographic Survey Corp, Toronto, Ontario, 1962.
-- Flew survey operations in Peru.
Arnold Kolb/Black Hills Aviation, Spearfish SD, April 1, 1971-1982.
- Later based out of Alamogordo, NM.
- Registered as N66571 registration.
- Converted to fire tanker.
- Flown as tanker #A18, #18, #C13 & #09.
NASM, Washington DC, January 19, 1982-2002.
- Loaned t0 Pima Air Museum, AZ as 483814, 1982-1984.
- Delivered to Washington-Dulles for NASM, stored, April 25, 1984-1992.
- Stored.
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Pooler, GA, 2011-2025.
- Displayed as 339049/City of Savannah.

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