Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t finished in time to join World War II, but instead spent its 74 years ...

Developed in the 1930s, the B-17 played a crucial role ... As a result, there was a push from the Navy to scale down the production – reducing the first series model, the B-17B to just thirty ...

Ultimately, the B-17 prototype was developed by manufacturer Boeing to fulfill these requirements. When the prototype, designated Model 299, first took to the skies in the mid-1930’s in ...