Del 8 Mar 1945 Code 2-30180 O-AW C Former US Army Air Force (USAAF) as 44-83863, US Navy as Bu No.77231(PB-1W), American Compressed Steel as N6464D reserved but not used.,N5233V, Marson Equipment & Salvage, Aero Union, Rogue Flying Services Converted to fire tanker, July 1962 Flown as tanker #F71., Aero Ag, Medford, Idaho Aircraft, Aero Union, Flown as tanker #D1 (later #18)., Displayed intially as 4-83863 / "Wicked Wanda", later as 46106 / X / "Gremlin's Hideout"

This is actually B-17G 44-83863 painted to represent a 96th BG B-17F, that unit being much later reformed as the 96th Test Wing here at Eglin. B-17F 42-3018 as painted was lost after conversion to an 'Aphrodite' flying bomb launched against U-boat pens in September 1944. The B-17G on show was delivered to the USN as PB-1W BuNo 77231 in 1945 and from 1947 was used in AEW testing by VX-4. Later with VC-11 and VW-1 before civilianisation as N6464D in 1957. Used as a fire tanker in the 1960s, becoming N5233V. Preserved at Eglin from 1975

Painted as 42-30180, but is in fact ex USAAF 44-83863.