16 Jul '45: TOS USAAF as B-17G. June/46: NAF Mustin Field, PA. Converted to PB-1G. 6 Dec '46: TOS USCG. Served several stations, including ice patrol. 11 May '59: Ace Smelting Inc, Phoenix, AZ with c/r N3193G. November/59: Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Los Angeles, CA. Modified for use in photographic/magnetometer surveys. 10/65: Biegert Bros, Shickley, NE; used as agricultural sprayer. 19 Mar '66: Aircraft Specialties Inc, Mesa, AZ. January/68: Converted as fire tanker. January/69: Flew to Hawaii for use in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora. July/86: Yankee Air Force, Willow Run, MI. 1986 to by 1995: Restored.

16 Jul '45: TOS USAAF as B-17G. 6/46: NAF Mustin Field, PA. Converted to PB-1G. 6 Dec '46: TOS USCG. Served several stations, including ice patrol. 11 May '59: Ace Smelting Inc, Phoenix, AZ with c/r N3193G. 11/59: Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Los Angeles, CA. Modified for use in photographic/magnetometer surveys. 10/65: Biegert Bros, Shickley, NE; used as agricultural sprayer. 19 Mar '66: Aircraft Specialties Inc, Mesa, AZ. 1/68: Converted as fire tanker. 1/69: Flew to Hawaii for use in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora. 7/86: Yankee Air Force, Willow Run, MI. 1986 to by 1995: Restored.

This airframe is actually a composite of parts from six aircraft. Many sections and parts are also being scratch-built using original blueprints. Airframe is identified as 44-83722 since that plane supplied the bulk of the parts, but they are adopting another parts bird, 44-85813, as their s/n. Other aircraft used are: 44-83316, 44-83525, 44-85505, 44-85734.

Ex N2566B, USAF 48-626, but painted as 48-622. This was the military version of the Northrop N-23 Pioneer. Twenty were built but were found to be underpowered, and were soon used as ground instruction airframes. They were sold off in 1955 to civil users, and this one went to Mexico as XA-LOU before going to the museum in the early 1990s.

Ex T.2-244. Donated to the museum by the Spanish government in 1971. Now in storage.

Ex 48-581.

Extensively modified and used in an 11-year experiment to prove a high-energy laser could be operated in an aircraft and employed against airborne targets. It was earlier used for photographing Apollo launches and recoveries. It was moved to store in August 2011, and replaced by a C-5A Galaxy.

18 May '45: TOS USAAF with s/n 44-85740 at Syracuse, NY, stored there. 7 Nov '45: Altus, OK, stripped of all military equipment. 6/46: Metal Products. 2 weeks later: Universal Aviation as NL5017N; used for aerial mapping. Successive owners reinforced the floor for hauling cattle, used for aerial photography and surveying, used for aerial application, and used for pest control and fire-fighting. 1976: WFU. 1978 Restoration to military configuration began. Ca.1982: To EAA and finished restoration.

Turning onto runway 28L for departure from CMH.

12 Jul '45: TOS USAAF as B-17G 44-83872. 16 Jul '45: TOS USN as PB-1 77235 at Naval Aircraft Modification Center, Johnsville, PA. 12/46: Converted for AEW tests as a PB-1W. Served with VX-4, FASRON 103, VW-2 and VW-1. 1/55: NAS Litchfield Park, AZ for storage. 10 Jul '56: SOC. 10/57: Aero Service Corp., Philadelphia, PA with c/r N7227C. Converted for aerial surveying. 12/61: ACS Incorporated; used for aerial photography, including photographing a solar eclipse from 31,500 feet for the University of Alaska. 9/67: Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX. Note lack of dorsal turret, sparse nose art.

This F-4 was originally built for the USN as F4H-1 but, before delivery, modified to become the USAF YRF-110A Spectre prototype, which was redesignated RF-4C in 1962. In 1965, it became the YF-4E testbed, to test F-4E slats and Fly by Wire (as seen in this picture). In 1974, canards were added on this aircraft. This photo was taken after the unqiue Phantom was retired and preserved in the Air Force museum.

4/45: TOS USAAF. Assigned to the 552nd BS/381st BG, RAF Ridgewell, England. It was the last plane assigned to this unit; did not see combat but was sent back to the USA after the war ended in Europe. 1948: Converted to MB-17G operating in the flying bomb project with the Guided Missile Wing, Eglin AFB, FL. Later converted to TB-17G. Then it went to the 3205th Drone Squadron, Eglin; converted to DB-17G and then DB-17P. 17 June '57: Flown to the Air Force Museum at Patterson Field, OH. 1988: Traded to the Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB for the recently restored "Shoo, Shoo, Shoo Baby.

Note no dorsal turret. 4/45: TOS USAAF with s/n 44-83575. Converted to B-17H for SAR with 1st Air/Sea Rescue Squadron. 1948: Redesignated SB-17G. Later assigned to MATS. 1952: Used as a static test target for nuclear tests at Yucca Flats, NV. 5/65: Aircraft Specialties, Mesa, AZ, with c/r N93012, and rebuilt. 1977: Converted for fire-fighting. 1985: Bob Collings of Collings Foundation; ferried to Kissimmee, FL for restoration to full military configuration, making its first post-restoration flight in July 1986. 2 Oct 2019: Crashed at Windsor Locks, CT.

Formerly N631CZ

1/44: TOS. 3/44: 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn. 29 May 44: 24th mission; made forced landing in Sweden; interred. 11/45: Modified as a transport for a Danish Airline. 3/48: TOS Danish Air Force. 10/53: Placed in storage. 3/56: Flying for geographical survey work. 1968: French presented the plane to the US Secretary of the Air Force. 7/72: Delivered to Dover AFB, DE. 1978-1988: Restored to full airworthy factory condition. 13 Oct 88: Flown to the Air Force Museum. 3/18: Removed from display. 6 Dec 21: Disassembly began for shipment to the National Air & Space Museum.

1/44: TOS. 3/44: 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn. 29 May 44: 24th mission; made forced landing in Sweden; interred. 11/45: Modified as a transport for a Danish Airline. 3/48: TOS Danish Air Force. 10/53: Placed in storage. 3/56: Flying for geographical survey work. 1968: French presented the plane to the US Secretary of the Air Force. 7/72: Delivered to Dover AFB, DE. 1978-1988: Restored to full airworthy factory condition. 13 Oct 88: Flown to the Air Force Museum. 3/18: Removed from display. 6 Dec 21: Disassembly began for shipment to the National Air & Space Museum.

7/42: TOS USAAF, assigned to the 324th Bombardment Squadron/91st Bombardment Group (Heavy). Beginning 11/42: Operating out of Bassingbourn, England the "Memphis Belle" flew 25 combat missions. 8 June 1943: Arrived in the USA, assigned to 4 different units until 8/45 when SOC. 3/46: Sold to City of Memphis, TN for $350. Lots of history until moved to Air Force Museum for restoration in Oct 2005. 2009-2018: Restored. Place on display 17 May 2018

25 Apr '41: TOS USAAC. Only US military aircraft to fly a combat mission on the first day of the US entry into WWII and remain in continuous military flying service throughout WWII. 7 Dec '41: Flew on the first U.S. combat mission in the Philippines and then had a long history in the war. 1/49: Donated to the National Air Museum. Lots of changes in storage locations. 4/61: Transported to the Paul Garber Restoration Facility in Silver Hill, MD, for future restoration. 2008: Transported to the NMUSAF in sections by rail in 2008 where restoration began in 2010.

The only B-10 version still in existence is this model 139WA export version sold to the Argentine Navy in 1938 (their s/n 0080), and used for training ground crews as late as the 1960s; it was last used as a ground-training tool for Argentine engineering students at the "Jorge Newberry" National School of Technical Education, No. 1, in Buenos Aires. It was acquired by the USAF museum on 21 August 1970 and is now displayed restored in the markings of a B-10 from 1934.