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Built at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, CA as a B-17G. Penultimate Douglas B-17. Navy use as PB-1W from 1945 to 1956. Into private use, airtanker from 1961 to 1979. To Barksdale AFB in 1980. First displayed as "Yankee Doodle II", [86] now wears livery of 42-31340 "Miss Liberty". [87] [88] 44-85599: Abilene, Texas: Dyess AFB: Static display
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.
Chrysler of California, Los Angeles, built 12,214 aircraft engines, 4,100 B-17 cabins and 688 PV-2 Harpoon cabins. [125] [126] Studebaker Pacific Corporation of Los Angeles built engines for the B-17s and PV-2 Harpoons being built in Burbank. [127]
Delivery airport for Lockheed Aircraft (P-38, B-17, PV-2, C-69) Also used by Technical Training Command Now: Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) Long Beach Army Airfield, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Long Beach; 6th Ferrying Group (Air Transport Command) Delivery airport for Douglas Aircraft (B-17, A-26, C-47) 348th Army Air Force Base Unit
On June 7, 1930, the facility was dedicated and renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport. [14] Los Angeles Municipal Airport on Army Day, c. 1931. The airport was used by private pilots and flying schools, but the city’s vision was that Los Angeles would become the main passenger hub for the area.
The Museum of Flying is a private non-profit aerospace museum in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1974, closed in 2002, and reopened in 2012 in a new facility. The Museum exhibits the history of aviation, focusing on aviation history, with an emphasis on Donald Douglas and the Douglas Aircraft Company, in Southern California.
[6] [7] Work continued on the B-17 at the south end until 2010 when a purpose built hangar was completed and the B-17 project as well as the newly acquired aircraft were moved into it. [8] In August 2011, the museum recovered the remains, primarily the empennage, of a B-17G wreckage from Talkeetna, Alaska for use in the restoration. [ 9 ]
Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (LMAFS) is a Formerly Used Defense Site which today is a private residence of actor Jared Leto in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The USAF military installation produced motion pictures and still photographs for the United States Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission ...