Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Directory
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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/41-9234
B-17 Flying Fortress 41-9234
Serial #: 41-9234
Construction #: 2706
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  B-17E Flying Fortress
Name: None
Status: Derelict
Last info: 2011
History:
Allocated to Royal Air Force as FL461.
Retained by United States Army Air Force as FL461.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
- Forced landing, Black Cat Pass, Papua New Guinea, circa 1944
- Abandoned in place.
Substantially complete, awaiting recovery
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.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-5th Edition, 2008.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2025.
Photo Source(s):
Harold W. Ferguson.
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