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  2. List of surviving Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II. Forty-five planes survive in complete form, [1] [a] including 38 in the United States with many preserved in museum displays. The number of operational B-17s has dwindled over time ...

  3. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of surviving Boeing B-29 Superfortresses - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a United States heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, and by the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Of the 3,970 built, 26 survive in complete form today, 24 of which reside in the United States, and two of which are airworthy.

  5. What we know about the B-17 Flying Fortress, P-63 ... - AOL

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    A Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided in midair with a B-17 Flying Fortress during the Wings Over Dallas air show on ... Boeing built 6,981 B-17s; another 5,745 were built by Douglas and Lockheed under a ...

  6. List of United States bomber aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Boeing Model 306 heavy bomber: n/a: abandoned 1935 project: 0: Boeing XB-15 heavy bomber: 1937: retired prototype 1944: 1: Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress heavy bomber: 1943: Lost 1943 project cancelled: 1: Boeing XB-39 Superfortress heavy bomber: 1944: retired prototype: 1: Boeing XF8B fighter bomber: 1944: retired prototype: 3: Boeing XPBB Sea ...

  7. Yankee Lady - Wikipedia

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    Yankee Lady is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress owned by a private collector, previously owned by the Yankee Air Museum. Originally delivered to the U.S military in 1945, the plane did not see combat action; it was used by the United States Coast Guard for over a decade. Purchased by the Yankee Air Museum in 1986, it was restored to a World War II ...

  8. Boeing B-50 Superfortress - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is an American strategic bomber. A post– World War II revision of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress , it was fitted with more powerful Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radial engines , stronger structure, a taller tail fin, and other improvements.

  9. List of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress variants - Wikipedia

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    Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. The following is an extensive catalogue of the variants and specific unique elements of each variant and/or design stage of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II.