B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

out at Binbrook, England while filming
'Memphis Belle'.
No casualties
85648 used in remote-controlled ditching
test in Gulf of Mexico in
late 1940s.
85667 (EB-17G, 6531st Flight Test Squadron)
crashed Rome, NY Jan 17, 1952. 2 killed, 5 injured
85683 transferred to US Navy as PB-1W Bu. No.
77258.
85628, 85657, 85661, 85656, 85681
transferred to Navy. Navy designation and serials not known
85679 to US Navy as PB-1W 77138. 77138 sold
on commercial market as N6460D and
later re-registered as N5225V.
Destroyed March 1964.
44-85692/85791 Lockheed/Vega B-17G-105-VE Fortress
c/n 8601/8700
85706 sold on commercial market as N7045C.
Scrapped 1959.
85718 to SNCAC at Villacoublay, France. Dec
10, 1947
sold to Institut Geographique National
of France as F-BEEC.
Became ZS-EEC, then F-BEEC again, and
later became G-FORT.
Returned to USA as N900RW. Now at Lone
Star Aviation
Museum in Texas.
85728 (c/n 8637) bought by TWA for use in
survey and liaison work to lay out postwar routes. Was
originally
registered NX4600 1946. Civil
registry later to NL-1B. Later given to Shah of Iran under
registration EP-HIM. Became F-BGOE
after Iran and then scrapped.
85731 to Navy as BuNo 83996 in 1947 as spare
parts source
85733 to SNCAC at Villacoublay, France.
Sold to Institut
Geographique National of France and
registered F-BEEB
Feb 20, 1948. Crashed and destroyed at
Yaounde,