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Zack Baughman
05-31-2012, 08:41 AM
Just read some interesting news. The B-17E, serial #41-2446, known as "Swamp Ghost" will be leaving its temporary home at Planes of Fame in Chino, California and heading to a new home at the Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island, Hawaii. This airplane was shot down and crashed in Papua New Guinea in 1942. It was "rediscovered" in 1972 by the Australian Air Force, and then salvaged in 2006 with financial backing from Aero Archaeology founder Fred Hagen and well-known warbird collector/owner David Tallichet. Legal entanglements kept it from coming to the U.S. until 2010. The Swamp Ghost story is certainly an interesting one, and I am glad to hear it is going to a good home. The Pacific Aviation Museum is a good operation and will treat the airplane right.

Here's a pic of the fuselage I took during a visit to Planes of Fame last Fall.
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For more reading about this airplane, check out these links:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/swamp.html
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-2446.html
http://www.theswampghost.com/