![]() ![]() ![]() In this role, it was subjected to three nuclear explosions as part of Operation Tumbler–Snapper. During its original military career, the aircraft operated as an Air-Sea Rescue aircraft until 1952, when it was reassigned to the Air Force Special Weapons Command for use as a specimen in weapons-effects testing. The aircraft was painted to represent a different B-17G, the 91st Bomb Group's Nine-O-Nine, with military serial number 42-31909 (variant B-17G-30-BO), which had been mothballed shortly after World War II at Kingman, Arizona and eventually scrapped. The aircraft was a 74-year-old Douglas-built Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, military serial number 44-83575 (variant B-17G-85-DL) with civilian registration N93012. The aircraft was destroyed by fire, with only the tail and a portion of one wing remaining.Īircraft The aircraft involved, painted as Nine-O-Nine Collings Foundation's Nine-O-Nine, in Marana, Arizona, on April 15, 2011 ![]() Seven of the thirteen people on board were killed, and the other six, as well as one person on the ground, were injured. On October 2, 2019, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress owned by the Collings Foundation crashed at Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut, United States. ![]()
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