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 ...
Hospers was a former U.S. Army Reserve colonel (he was selected to be in command of B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby - which had been assigned to the 91st Bomb Group and that had been completely restored - for ...