Famous aircraft: the B-17 Flying Fortress. Scale drawings: Richard Groh Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Object Details Author Birdsall, Steve Notes Cover title: The B-17 Flying Fortress. Date 1965 ...

Built from 1936 to 1945, about 45 intact Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress remain. Today, less than 10 are estimated to still be airworthy. There were 12,731 B-17s produced in total, of which 4,735 were ...