b-17g

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G-10-VE #42-39996 which arrived at Bassingbourn to join the 91st BG on 14 january 1944. She was assigned to the 332nd BS and after completing a few flights, she received the name 'Boston Bombshell' after the original...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G 42-97061 LL-B General Ike" of the 401st BS/ 91st BG based in Bassingbourne UK. One of the more well known B-17's of the 91st BG, was originally assigned to the 457th BG, but came to the 91st after only 3 days there, on...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G 43-38841, which was assigned to the 323rd BS/ 91st BG in November 1944 and sported noseart designed to beat the censors. The name was more risqué than the Disney-styled drawing of a little donkey, painted by Tony...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G-85-BO 43-38379 OR-O "Margie", which was assigned to the 323rd BS/ 91st BG, based in Bassingbourn, UK, on the 10th of September 1944. It was named after the wife, Marjorie McConnell, of the first pilot that it was...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G-85-BO #43-38348 LG-O "Roxy's Special" of the 322 BS/ 91st BG based in Bassingbourne UK. #348 arrived in Bassingbourne on 18 August 1944, and very quickly received her nose art, by Corporal Tony Starcer. By 5 September...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17F 42-29591 LL-Z "Tha Shamrock Special" of the 401st BS/ 91st BG based in Bassingbourne UK. Before being transferred to the 91st BG, this aircraft flew two missions with the 95th BG, as 'Easy Aces'. It came to the 91st in...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17 42-107040 Shirley Jean, assigned to the 91st BG in Bassingbourn, UK. It which was a B-17G and was named after the crew chief's two daughters. The nose art was done by Tony Starcer and was taken from Esquire's Vargas Girl...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors B-17G-35-BO 42-32076, which rolled off Boeing's production line in Seattle in march 1944. This was around the transition from camouflaged to bare metal aircraft, which led to the odd situation that the datablock was stencilled...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G-35-BO 42-32076, the former "Shoo shoo shoo baby". In 1968, the ancestry of F-BGSH, an old B-17 languishing in derelict state on Creil Airfield in France, was discovered by the Australian aviation historian Steve...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors B-17G-35-BO 42-32076, which rolled off Boeing's production line in Seattle in march 1944. This was around the transition from camouflaged to bare metal aircraft, which led to the odd situation that the datablock was stencilled...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G-45-BO 42-97276 "SWEET 17 The Spirit of St. Louis". Arriving at Bassingbourn on 7th March 1944, this silver Boeing-built B17G survived more than a full year of combat in the freezing skies over Northern Europe with the...

This folder contains a repaint for the A2A WoP2 B-17G in the colors of B-17G 44-6596 LG-P "Sweet Dish" of the 322nd BS/ 91st BG based in Bassingbourne UK. She arrived in Bassingbourne on the 4th of November 1944 and flew her first mission 5 days later, after which she was assigned to Lt Bob...

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. It represents B-17G-65-BO 43-37625 OR-W "Cheri" of the 323rd BS/91st BG. Cheri completed 42 missions, before being hit by fighters during a raid on Merseburg. 7 crew members including the pilot, Lt. Robert...

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. B-17G #42-97519 "Outhouse Mouse" flew over 100 missions with the 323rd BS/ 91st BG from Bassingbourn, UK, surviving the war. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the repaint kit by A2A.

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. B-17G #44-6954 F flew over 100 missions with the 569th BS/ 390th BG from Parham-Framlingham, UK, surviving the war. It took part in Operation Chowhound, dropping food supplies over the starving Netherlands...

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. It represents #42-97976 which was assigned to the 709th BS /447th BG. It's co-pilot was Lt. John Bauman, a fraternity brother of Milton Caniff. Lt. Bauman sent Caniff a detailed sketch of the proposed...

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. It shows B-17G 43-38909 'Kraut Krusher' of the 748th BS / 457th BG, which made an emergency landing in France after being hit on a mission to Dresden on 14 February 1945. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on...

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. #44-6882 flew with the 546th BS/384th BG from Grafton Underwood as BK-J "Boomerang". It survived the war, to be scrapped later at Kingman, Arizona. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the repaint kit by A2A.

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. B-17G 42-97503 "Princess Pat" was assigned to the 533rd BS/381st BG in Kimbolton, UK. She crash landed here on 26 march 1945, and was salvaged.

This folder contains a repaint for the accu-sim version of the A2A B-17G Flying Fortress. B-17G #42-40003 WA-H "Ol'Gappy" flew with the 524th BS/ 379th BG from Kimbolton, UK. It flew a total of 157 missions, a record for any UK based four engined bomber, finally surviving the war, only to be...