Attempts have been made to locate the airframe, particularly by noted recovery expert Gary Larkins, but it has yet to be found.
to England by air, B-17E-BO, 41-9090, c/n 2562, ditches in a Greenland fjord near Narasak. Regan, of Dunmore, Pa., parachuted to safety, suffering only minor injuries and shock, the air base said." 27 June 1942 During Operation Bolero, the ferrying of combat aircraft from the U.S. Fouts, of Santa Rosa, California, and Sgt. Smith, commander of Davis-Monthan air corps base, who said the tragedy was due to 'engine failure and fire in the air,' were: First Lieut.
"The dead and their addresses, as announced by Col. 6 April 1942 B-17B, 38-214, of the 12th Bomb Squadron, 39th Bomb Group, Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona, suffers engine failure with one bursting into flame, the bomber crashing into the desert 22 miles SE of Tucson, killing all five crew. 3 April 1942 The 303rd Bomb Group, activated at Pendleton Field, Oregon, on 3 February 1942, suffers its first fatal aircraft accident when three flying officers and five enlisted crew are killed in the crash of a B-17E-BO, 41-9053, six miles (10 km) N of Strevell, Idaho during a training mission. Scattered wreckage is still where it fell. Eight of nine crew successfully parachute down, pilot is KWF. 2 November 1941 B-17C, 40-2047, of the 7th Bomb Group, en route from Salt Lake City, Utah, to McClellan Field, near Sacramento, California, enters a winter storm over the Sierras, stalls at 18,000 feet and spins in, coming down near Georgetown, California, ~30 miles NE of Placerville. 90 Squadron, RAF Polebrook, is destroyed when a troublesome engine catches fire during a late-night ground run. 3 July 1941 Royal Air Force Boeing Fortress I, AN528, of No. Survivor, who was in the aft fuselage, was able to bail out at 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Single survivor, a medical officer from RAE Farnborough, reports that the bomber entered a cumulo-nimbus cloud at 33,000 feet (10,100 m), became heavily iced-up with hailstones entering through open gunports, after which control was lost, the port wing detached, and the fuselage broke in two at 25,000 feet (7,600 m). Hawley, breaks up in mid-air over Yorkshire during a training flight. 90 Squadron, RAF Great Massingham, flown by F/O J. 22 June 1941 Royal Air Force Boeing Fortress I, AN522, of No. General Order Number 10, dated 3 March 1943, announces that the advanced flying school being constructed near Seymour, Indiana is to be named Freeman Field in honor of the Hoosier native. Freeman had shared the 1939 MacKay Trophy for the Boeing XB-15 flight from Langley Field, Virginia via Panama and Lima, Peru at the request of the American Red Cross, for delivering urgently needed vaccines and other medical supplies in areas of Chile devastated by an earthquake. 6 February 1941 B-17B Flying Fortress, 38-216, c/n 2009, crashes near Lovelock, Nevada while en route to Wright Field, Ohio, killing all eight on board. 1940s 18 December 1940 Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress, 36–157, c/n 1981, formerly of the 2d Bomb Group, Langley Field, Virginia, transferred to the 93d Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, March Field, California, in October 1940, crashed E of San Jacinto, California, 3.5 miles NNW of Idyllwild, while en route to March Field. Repaired, Flying Fortress departs for Wright Field on 11 January 1937. 7 December 1936 First Y1B-17, 36-149, c/n 1973, first flown 2 December, makes rough landing at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, on third flight, when Army pilot Stanley Umstead touches down with locked brakes, airframe ends up on nose after short skid. Some people cite the inadvertent take-off configuration which caused this accident (forgetting to unlock the control surfaces before takeoff) as the origin of today’s ubiquitous aviation “checklist”.
As the prototype was owned by Boeing, it had no USAAC serial. Ogden Air Depot, Utah, renamed Hill Field, (later Hill Air Force Base), on 1 December 1939. Boeing test pilot and observer Les Tower died later. Other engineers taken to hospital with injuries.
30 October 1935 Prototype Boeing Model 299, NX13372, 'X13372', c/n 1963, the future B-17, crashes on take-off from Wright Field, Ohio, due to locked control surfaces, killing early military aviator and test pilot Maj.
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