B-17F

B-17F

Family
B-17 Flying Fortress
Class
Heavy bomber
Changes
B-17E airframe with a one- or two-piece moulded Plexiglas nose cone, fully-feathering paddle-blade propellers and many internal changes; mid-production 'Tokyo tanks' in the wings added 1,080 US gal. The last 65 or 86 Douglas-built aircraft had the Bendix chin turret.
Produced
3,405

Service

≈ Sep 1942 – 25 Apr 1945
≈ Jul 1942 – Apr 1944

Modifications 2

≈ Jul 1942 – Apr 1944
B-17F3,386
≈ Sep 1942 – 25 Apr 1945