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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:B-17G-105-VE Fortress
    Last Military Serial:44-85774 USAAF
    Construction Number:8683
    Last Civil Registration:N621L
    Compressed ID:Lockheed-Vega B-17G-105-VE sn 44-85...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Specialties Inc, Mesa, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-17G-105-VE by Lockheed-Vega at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-85774 and operated with these markings: BA-774.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At Tinkler Air Force Base

    22 June 1956

    To Government of Bolivia.
    Delivered from Davis Monthan AFB stocks.

    From 1957 to 1968

    To Lloyd Aero Boliviano, La Paz with new c/r CP-621.

    December 1968

    To Aircraft Specialties Inc, Mesa, AZ with new c/r N621L (B-17G, 44-85774).


    Photographer: Robert Long

    Operated as fire service #64.


    Photographer: Robert Long

    21 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Mesa Falcon Field, Arizona

    17 July 1975

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Crashed at Cedar Breaks in Southern Utah.

    26 May 1976

    Civil registration, N621L, cancelled.
    Cancelled.
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