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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:B-17E-BO Fortress
    Last Military Serial:41-2446 USAAF
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-17E-BO sn 41-2446 USAAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-17E-BO by Boeing at Seattle, Washington, USA.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-2446.

    Markings Applied: Swamp Ghost

    23 February 1942

    Crashed.
    Crash-landed Feb 23, 1942 in swamp while returning from a raid on Rabaul. Crew walked away from the crash site and were eventually returned to Port Moresby and were returned to combat. Plane remained half-submerged in a swamp.

    From 23 February 1942 to 2006

    Abandoned.
    Had been sitting in the Aigiambo Lake in Papua New Guinea for 64 years.

    2006

    David Tallichet, the founder of MARC, had reportedly secured permission to recover this plane. He was denied permission by the PNG government to exercise salvage rights and sold the salvage rights to Alfred Hagen. Hagen and Robert Geinert in 2006 had wings and enginesremoved and airlifted the fuselage to Lae, PNG. Aircraft was impounded by the PNG government and it was left sitting on the wharf at Lae.

    By 2010

    Noted in store at Chino,CA.

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    10 April 2013

    Transported by ship.
    Aircraft arrived at Ford Island after journey by lorry and ship from California.

    April 2014


    Photographer: Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor
    Notes: Swamp Ghost restoration at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor

    26 November 2014


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - at the aviation museum.

    To Pacific Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
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    To Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
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