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Thunderbird is the name given to a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. She is one of the few surviving flyable B-17s, and is the largest aircraft housed at the Lone Star Flight Museum, located in Galveston, Texas. The demonstration aircraft was completed on May 8, 1945 at the end of hostilities in the European theater of World War II. She was originally B-17G-105-VE 44-85718 and is now painted to replicate a noted veteran World War II bomber of the 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, part of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, based at RAF Molesworth, England.

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  • Thunderbird (B-17)
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  • Thunderbird is the name given to a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. She is one of the few surviving flyable B-17s, and is the largest aircraft housed at the Lone Star Flight Museum, located in Galveston, Texas. The demonstration aircraft was completed on May 8, 1945 at the end of hostilities in the European theater of World War II. She was originally B-17G-105-VE 44-85718 and is now painted to replicate a noted veteran World War II bomber of the 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, part of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, based at RAF Molesworth, England.
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Fate
  • Retired to the Kingman, Arizona aircraft disposal plant
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  • Douglas Aircraft Company
First Flight
  • 1943(xsd:integer)
preservation
  • Currently flying with the Lone Star Flight Museum
in service
  • --03-22
military serial
  • 44(xsd:integer)
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  • Thunderbird is the name given to a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. She is one of the few surviving flyable B-17s, and is the largest aircraft housed at the Lone Star Flight Museum, located in Galveston, Texas. The demonstration aircraft was completed on May 8, 1945 at the end of hostilities in the European theater of World War II. She was originally B-17G-105-VE 44-85718 and is now painted to replicate a noted veteran World War II bomber of the 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, part of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, based at RAF Molesworth, England.
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