B-17 Flying Fortress Yankee Lady Cockpit

by Don Struke

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B-17 Flying Fortress Yankee Lady Cockpit

Artist

Don Struke

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Photograph - Photography

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Restored to an extremely high standard of craftsmanship, "Yankee Lady" is well-known on the North American air show circuit. As you will read below, she has been in a movie, too. Of the more than 12,000 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses built, nearly a third were lost in combat or other crashes, This beautiful survivor, one of a very small number of flyable B-17s in the world, was photographed at the annual (in June) Mid-Atlantic Aviation Museum air show in Reading, Pennsylvania.

History of Yankee Lady from the Web site of her home base, the Yankee Air Museum in Yspilanti, Michigan: B-17G-110-VE, N3193G, was delivered to the U. S. Army Air Corps as 44-85829, then transferred to the U. S. Coast Guard as PB-1G, BuNo 77255 in September 1946. It served at NAS Elizabeth City, North Carolina until May 1959. Ace Smelting Incorporated of Phoenix, Arizona bought it on May 11, 1959, gave it its current registration, then sold it to Fairchild Aerial Surveys of Los Angeles, California the same month. Aero Services Corporation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania acquired it on August 2, 1965 and sold it to Beigert Brothers of Shickley, Nebraska on October 1, 1965. Aircraft Specialties Incorporated of Mesa, Arizona bought it on March 19, 1966 and flew it as tanker c34 and later tanker #34. It was flown to Hawaii in January 1969 to appear in the movie Tora Tora Tora. Globe Air Incorporated of Mesa, Arizona acquired it along with B-17G-85-DL, N9563Z on February 18, 1981.

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August 20th, 2011

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