Our B17 Flying Fortress Nine O Nine Model
Airplane Displays Excellent and Skillful Craftsmanship
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B17 Flying Fortress Nine O Nine.
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stages of quality control before being placed in its box. The
B17 Flying Fortress Nine O Nine scale model plane
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B17 Flying Fortress Nine O Nine.
B-17G Flying Fortress "Nine O Nine" History:
Nine-O-Nine was a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber of the 323rd
Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group. She completed 140 combat missions
during World War II, believed to be the Eighth Air Force record for
most missions, and never lost a crewman as a casualty.
Nine-O-Nine was nicknamed after the last three digits of her
serial number, 42-31909. She was added to the USAAF inventory on
December 15, 1943, and flown overseas on February 5, 1944. Flying
her first combat mission on February 25, 1944 to Augsburg, Germany,
she made 18 trips to Berlin, dropped 562,000 pounds of bombs, and
flew 1,129 hours.
After the end of hostilities in Europe, Nine-O-Nine was returned
to the United States on June 8, 1945. She was consigned after the
war to the RFC facility at Kingman, Arizona on December 7, 1945, and
was eventually scrapped.
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