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B-17 FLYING FORTRESS/44-83868

Serial #: 44-83868
Construction #:
  32509 (-DL)
Civil Registration:
  N5237V
  N6466D
  N5237V

Model(s):
  B-17G Flying Fortress
  PB-1W Flying Fortress
Name: None
Status: Static Display
Last info: 2025

History:
Delivered to the United States Army Air Force as 44-86868.
- First flight, Long Beach, CA, July 4, 1945.
- Ferried to NAS Johnsville, PA for conversion to PB-1W.
Delivered as PB-1W to United States Navy as Bu. 77233
- BOC: July 17, 1945.
- SOC: July 10, 1956
- retired NAS Litchfield Park AZ, 26.5.55/57.
-- Total time on airframe: 3484 hours.
American Compressed Steel Corp, Dallas, TX, December 2, 1957-1960.
- Registration N6466D reserved but not taken uo, 1958.
- Registered as N5237V, March 8, 1958.
- Stored unconverted, marked as USN XD-2/Hell Wagon, Dallas-Love Airport, 1958-1960.
Ashland Corp, Tucson, AZ, February 29, 1960.
Marson Equipment & Salvage Co, Tucson, AZ, July 7, 1960-1961.
Aero Union Corp, Anderson, CA, September 27, 1961.
Calvin J. Butler/Butler Farm Air/Butler Aircraft Corp, Richmond, OR, December 1961-1971.
- Cconverted for fire bombing, May 1962.
- Converted for spraying, August 1962.
- Flown as tanker #E15 (later #F15, then #65).
- Damaged from tree strike during fire bombing run, Carson, WA, July 27, 1967.
TBM Inc, Sequoia, CA, 1977-1983.
- Flown as tanker #65.
- Retired from fire bombing, 1981.
- Restored by TBM Inc back to military configuration.
- First flight, Sequoia, CA, September 28, 1993.
- Flew as "483868/N".
RAF Museum, Hendon, December 9, 1983-2025.
- Converted back to military configuration as 483868 at Sequoia, CA.
- Delivered to RAF Bize Norton, October 3-13, 1982.
- Engines exchanged with G-BEDF.
- Dismantled at Stansted.
- Transported by road to Hendon, December 9, 1983.
- Displsyed as "483868/N".

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