Liberty Belle (aircraft)

[5] Following these flights, it was donated to the Connecticut Aeronautical Historic Association, where a tornado on 3 October 1979, blew another aircraft onto the B-17's midsection, breaking the fuselage.

The Liberty Foundation also took an historic overseas tour in July 2008 along the northern ferry route to England.

[6] The bomber's remains were stored in a hangar in Aurora for a few days before being taken back to its home at Brooks Aviation Inc in Douglas, Georgia.

44–83690), a B-17G, was modified postwar to serve with the United States Air Force as a drone director DB-17P, before being retired in 1958.

42–31255, Miss Liberty Belle of the 305th Bombardment Group stationed at RAF Chelveston that crashed in the English village of Wymington in 1944.

The B-17 Liberty Belle about to take off from the 2005 Lumberton Celebration of Flight.
Sold as scrap on 25 June 1947, Pratt & Whitney subsequently bought B-17G USAAF serial 44-85734 (shown with a T34 turboprop mounted in its nose) and operated it from 1947 to 1967 as a testbed aircraft . [ 1 ]
The B-17 warbird Liberty Belle at El Cajon, California March 2008
The aircraft that became the Liberty Belle on display at the Bradley Air Museum in the early 1970s. It was donated by Pratt & Whitney, which used it in this configuration as an engine testbed .