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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:B-17G-75-BO Fortress
    Last Military Serial:43-37975 USAAF
    Construction Number:8953
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-17G-75-BO sn 43-37975 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-17G-75-BO by Boeing at Seattle, Washington, USA.

    12 June 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-37975.

    12 June 1944

    To United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY.

    25 June 1944

    Transferred to 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NE.

    6 July 1944

    Transferred to 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH.

    8 July 1944

    Transferred to 839th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group, Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk.
    Operated with markings: R5 A, P, 337975

    Circa July 1944


    Photographer: Fargo Air Museum Archives

    8 July 1945

    Damaged.
    Mid-air collision with B-17G 43-38704 near Lavenham.

    12 July 1945

    Transferred to 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT.
    Returned to the United States.

    14 July 1945

    Transferred to 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS.

    27 December 1945

    To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No. 41, Kingman Field, AZ.

    July 1946

    To Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO.

    After July 1946

    Scrapped.
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