The name also appears on a later B-17G delivered at the end of the war, serial number 44-85718, which remains airworthy and is painted to replicate the earlier Thunderbird.

She was accepted by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in November 1943 and arrived at RAF Molesworth in England on 18 January 1944.

On 23 January 1944, she was assigned to the crew of 1st Lt. Vern L. Moncur, of Rupert, Idaho, and Bountiful, Utah, which had six previous missions in other bombers.

This plane is the subject of a 25-by-75-foot (7.6 by 22.9 m) mural in the World War II Gallery of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., entitled "Fortresses Under Fire", completed 1975–1976.

[5] As of February 2022[update], the plane was located at the shop of the Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon, undergoing a prolonged period of inspection and maintenance work.