B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/42-6073
    
	
42-6073 being restored at Jack Lynsdale's Minnesota facility, 1954-1955.
      Serial #: 42-6073
Construction #: 6369
Civil Registration:
N7942A
CP-686
    
    
    Construction #: 6369
Civil Registration:
N7942A
CP-686
      Model(s):
B-17F Flying Fortress
TB-17F Flying Fortress
Name: None
Status: Wrecked
Last info: 1965
	
    B-17F Flying Fortress
TB-17F Flying Fortress
Name: None
Status: Wrecked
Last info: 1965
      History: 
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-6073.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
University of California College of Aeronautics, Santa Maria, CA, 1946.
- Used as instructional airframe, Hancock Field, Santa Maria.
Jack Lynsdal/Lynsdale Flying Service, St. Paul, MN, April 1954.
- Registered as N7942A.
Minnesota Airmotive, Minneapolis, MN, September 13, 1957.
L. B. Smith Aircraft Corp, Miami, FL, September 8, 1960.
Struck-off USCR, sold to Bolivia, December 21, 1960.
Corporation Bolivia de Fuemento, La Paz, Bolivia, September 1960.
- Registered as CP-686.
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, Bolivia, September 1960-1965.
- Crashed and destroyed, Trinidad, November 4, 1965.
    
    
 
 	Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-6073.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
University of California College of Aeronautics, Santa Maria, CA, 1946.
- Used as instructional airframe, Hancock Field, Santa Maria.
Jack Lynsdal/Lynsdale Flying Service, St. Paul, MN, April 1954.
- Registered as N7942A.
Minnesota Airmotive, Minneapolis, MN, September 13, 1957.
L. B. Smith Aircraft Corp, Miami, FL, September 8, 1960.
Struck-off USCR, sold to Bolivia, December 21, 1960.
Corporation Bolivia de Fuemento, La Paz, Bolivia, September 1960.
- Registered as CP-686.
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, Bolivia, September 1960-1965.
- Crashed and destroyed, Trinidad, November 4, 1965.
      Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2025.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page.
www.aeroflight.co.uk
  
 	Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2025.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page.
www.aeroflight.co.uk
  
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