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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:DB-17P Fortress
    Last Military Serial:44-83624 USAF
    Construction Number:32265
    Compressed ID:Boeing DB-17P sn 44-83624 USAF cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, Delaware

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-17G-90-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-83624.

    By April 1945

    Transferred to 552nd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, RAF Ridgewell, England.
    Last aircraft assigned to this unit.

    1945

    Returned to the USA.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-83624.

    1948

    Transferred to Guided Missile Wing, Eglin AFB, FL.

    Converted to a MB-17G.
    Operated in the flying bomb project.

    Converted to a TB-17G.

    Transferred to 3205th Drone Squadron, Eglin AFB, FL.
    Served as a drone director.

    Converted to a DB-17G.

    Converted to a DB-17P.

    17 June 1957

    Ferry flight. Delivered to United States Air Force Museum, Patterson Field (East Side), Dayton, OH.
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    Markings Applied: 483624/VE

    Circa 1960


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF

    Circa 5 June 1970


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the old USAF Museum, Patterson Field (Wright-Patterson AFB), Fairborn, OH

    17 October 1970

    Transported by ground. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    17 October 1970


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF
    Notes: Moving to the new museum facility

    Circa 1971


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF

    1988

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1988

    This aircraft was traded to the Air Mobility Museum for Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, 44-32076, which was restored by personnel at the Air Mobility Command Museum.

    16 June 1989

    To Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, DE.
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    16 June 1989

    Transported by air.
    Transported disassembled in C-5A.

    1996

    Markings Applied: Sleepy Time Gal
    Marked as Sleepy Time Gal from the 381st Bomb Group.

    9 July 2008


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: Photo was taken at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB, Dover Delaware.

    13 May 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Dover, DE.

    13 May 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Dover, DE.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Air Mobility Command Museum
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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