Serial #: 44-83563
Construction #:
32204-DL
Civil Registration:
N9563Z
Model(s):
B-17G-85-DL
CB-17A,
VB-17G
Name: Fuddy Duddy
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2006
History:
Delivered to USAAF as 44-83563.
- BOC: April 7, 1945
- SOC: June 1955
- Stored for 30 days, Patterson, OH.
- Converted to CB-17G (Staff Transport).
- Deployed to Philipines, 1945-1952.
- Returned to United States and overhauled.
- Allocated to 6000th Base Service Group, Japan, 1952-June 1955.
American Compressed Steel, Cincinatti, OH, Aug. 18, 1959.
Aero American Corp., Tucson, AZ, May 9, 1960-1963.
- Registered as N9563Z.
Columbia Pictures Inc., NY, Oct. 11, 1961.
- Leased for movie "The War Lover"
- Arrived Gatwick, UK, Oct. 8, 1961.
- Flown as 127742/DF*T
- Departed UK on May 16, 1962.
- Stored Ryan Field, AZ/
Aircraft Specialties, Inc., Mesa AZ, Feb. 2, 1963-1981.
- Flown as tanker #E24, #C24, #24, #89.
- Flown to Hawaii for movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" Jan. 1969.
Globe Air, Inc., Mesa AZ, Feb. 18, 1981-1985
- Flown as tanker #89.
National Warplane Museum, Geneseo, NY, Oct. 1985-2002.
Wings Of Eagles, Horseheads, NY, 2004-2005.
- Formerly National Warplane Museum.
- Flown as 297400/Fuddy Duddy/K*E.
Martin Aviation, Orange County, CA, 2006