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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:B-17G Fortress
    Last Military Serial:44-8846 USAAF
    Construction Number:8246
    Last Civil Registration:F-AZDX
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-17G sn 44-8846 USAAF cn 82...
    Latest Owner or Location:Jean-Baptiste Salis Association, La Ferte-Alais, Essonne

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-17G.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-8846.

    9 December 1954

    To Ep Institut Geographique National, Paris with new c/r F-BGSP.

    15 June 1986


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1986 photo at Cambrai Epinoy

    5 August 1987

    To Association Forteresse Toujours Volante En France, La Ferte Alais, Ile France Hte Normandie with new c/r F-AZDX.
    Based at La Ferte-alais.

    To Orly Airport, Paris, Ile-De-France.
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    Markings Applied: DS M

    Based at Jean-Baptiste Salis Association, La Ferte-Alais, Essonne.
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    29 September 1999


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At an Open-Airport-Day at Linz-Hoersching, Austria

    9 July 2006


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: At the Flying Legends Display 2006, Duxford, England. Note Mother and Country Badge on Starboard Nose.

    2 September 2006


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: EBBE.PINK LADY.

    2 September 2006


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: EBBE.PINK LADY.

    10 September 2006


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: during airshow at Grenchen LSZG on the return flight to france over the Jura mountain. Foto aircraft is a Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter

    18 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2013 photo at La Ferte Alais, Paris, France

    17 June 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at La Ferte Alais, Essonne, France

    14 September 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Pink Lady Painting on the nose of F-AZDX at the Musee Volant Salis, La Ferte-Alais, France
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    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
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     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
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