B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

Crash remains
eventually acquired by Tom Reilly of
Kissimmee, FL for
use in creating a flyable B-17 out of
usable parts from
this plane and from 44-85734.
Reported in 2006 to be under
restoration to fly at Douglas, GA.
Registered N3154S Feb 26, 2007.
85817 was at one time N31851. To Bolivian
AF in 1956. Oct 1956
sold to Aerovias Los Andes as CP-622.
Subsequently to Frigorifico
Co-Op Los Andes. W/o at Laja, Bolivia
Feb 18, 1957.
85821/85831 transferred to US Coast Guard as
PB-1G Bu No. 77247/77257.
77247 sold on commercial market Jul
1958 as N2873G.
Resold to Peruvian operator as
OB-SAA-532 and
later re-registered as OB-R-532.
Fate uncertain, but there
is a report that the plane was
involved in a mid 1960s
crash and that the airframe has
been disassembled in
South America and is to be shipped
to British Columbia.
77248 back to US Navy as surplus Jun
1948.
77249 sold on commercial market Aug
1958 to Widtfeldt and Beigert as N3192G and
later re-registered as N8055E.
Destroyed Mar 1960.
77250 sold on commercial market as
N4711C, later re-registered as N8055E
and the N9347R. Resold to
Bolivian operator CP-964. Crashed Dec 18, 1963,
El Alto, Dec 1963.
77251 sold on commercial market as
N7901C. Destroyed by fire Oct 1959.
77252 crashed CGAS SFO Oct 6, 1946
77253 scrapped 1953 and salvaged for