Boeing B-17G Aluminum Overcast
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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress N5017N Aluminum Overcast is visiting the Deer Valley Airport in northwest Phoenix over the weekend of April 1 - 3. It carried a contingent of media representatives aloft on Thurday afternoon. The public can view Aluminum Overcast close-up by entering through Cutter Aviation. Rides aboard Aluminum Overcast can be purchsed.
See the locations where I photographed the Commemorative Air Force Bombers at Deer Valley Airport on April 13, 2011 in Google Earth.
Smoke billows from the number three engine as it starts up.
Aluminum Overcast taxies out for departure.
Aluminum Overcast was built by the Vega division of Lockheed. Its construction number is 8649. It served the Army Air Force as 44-85740. It was used for training in the United States.
After World War II, Aluminum Overcast was sold as scrap to Metal Products Incorporated of Amarillo, Texas on June 17, 1947. Universal Aviation Incorporated of Tulsa, Oklahoma bought it on July 10, 1947 and registered it as NL5017N. Charles Winters of Miami, Florida bought it on August 2, 1947 and sold it to Vero Beach Export and Import Company on August 16, 1947. Aero Services Corporation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania acquired it on June 27, 1949 and registered it as N5017N. Chris Stolzfus and Associates of Coatesville, Pennsylvania bought it on August 10, 1962 and sold it to Dothan Aviation Corporation of Dothan, Alabama in December 1966. William Harrison of Tulsa, Oklahoma bought it on February 20, 1978. The Experimental Aircraft Association acquired it in August 1980.
Aluminum Overcast lifts off from Runway 25 Left.
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Aluminum Overcast on approach to land on Runway 25 Left.
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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses were used to fight fires unitl the 1980s. Subsequently, the tankers were restored to stock configuration. The restored Flying Fortresses tour the country, taking aviation enthusiasts aloft on nostalgia flights.
Deer Valley is the busiest geneeral aviation airport in the United States. It is a popular destination for barnstorming warbirds.
Aluminum Overcast, a
Boeing B-17G, visited the Santa Barbara Airport in May 1998.
Aluminum Overcast
returned to the Santa Barbara Airport from April 23 to April 26,
2001.
The Experimental Aircraft Association's Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Aluminum Overcast arrived at the Santa Barbara Airport on Monday, April 17, 2006. On Tuesday and Wednesday Aluminum Overcast carried aviation enthusiasts aloft on nostalgia flights. On Thursday it departed for Riverside.
You can buy a 2020 calendar featuring my photographs of Flying Fortress Nine-O-Nine, Liberator Witchcraft, and Mitchell Tondelayo.
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, N93012 Nine-O-Nine, Consolidated B-24J Liberator Witchcraft, and North American B-25J Mitchell, NL3746G Tondelayo are operated by the Collings Foundation. The bombers tour the country making revenue generating flights, taking aviation enthusiasts aloft for about a half hour.
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A dozen photos of Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, N5017N Aluminum Overcast visiting the Santa Barbara Airport and Deer Valley Airport.
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A dozen photos of Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, N9563Z "Fuddy Duddy" at Santa Barbara and Chino.
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