B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

men and equipment from drifting abandoned
Soviet
ice station. Appeared in movie
*Thunderball* with
Fulton skyhook system installed. Registered
to Evergreen Vintage
Aircraft of Oregon as N207EV by 1993. Now
on inside
display at the Air Venture Museum in
McMinnville, OR.
83790 crash landed on frozen Dyke Lake in Labrador
Dec 23,
1947. Crew rescued, aircraft abandoned and
sank to
bottom of lake. Aircraft located in July
1998. Recovered Sep 9, 2004
from lake, now under restoration to fly at
Douglas, GA
83794 converted to SB-17G. (6th ARS) crashed on
takeoff at Ernest
Harmon AFB, Newfoundland May 21, 1951.
83802 converted to B-17H
83809 loaned to USCG and returned in 1948. To
Bolivian AF in 1956,
to Corporacion Boliviano de Fomento as
CP-626 Dec 1956.
W/o at Caranavi, Bolivia Oct 25, 1959.
83810 to Navy as BuNo 83994 in 1947 as spare parts
source
83811 sold on commercial market as N5014N and
operated by Universal Aviation of Tulsa,
OK as a photo-mapping aircraft on contract
to the US Army Mapping Service..
Ended up with Israeli air force, probably as
1601. After arrival in Israel it served with 69 "Hammer"
Squadron from 1948 to circa 1958, when it was
withdrawn due to age. Sold to
American user as N9814F, but was impounded
in Algeria Mar 1958 for
carrying arms. Aircraft returned to Israel
and dismantled.
Aircraft fuselage sold to Columbia Pictures.
Fuselage noted at Croydon, England Sep 1961 and used for
static shots in the film "The War Lover".