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 ...

For 60 years, a World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress sat atop an Oregon service station, serving as a canopy for customers stopping to refuel.

The B-17's airborne kill ratio found that they downed 23 enemy planes per 1,000 raids. Unfortunately, despite its many strengths, the U.S. lost thousands of B-17s during WWII.

The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the main offensive weapons used during WWII. Here's who designed and built it, and where they were made.

A Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided in midair with a B-17 Flying Fortress during the Wings Over Dallas air show on Saturday at Dallas Executive Airport. Here is what we know about the aircraft.

Summary and Key Points: The Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” revolutionized aerial warfare when it debuted in the mid-1930s. As a four-engine bomber, it offered greater payload capacity and range ...

B-17 Flying Fortress: Big Gamble for Boeing Today, Boeing may be an aerospace giant, but that certainly wasn’t the case in the early 1930s when Boeing – a company with just 600 employees ...

Boeing Plant No. 2 in Seattle, built in 1936, produced over 6,981 B-17 Flying Fortresses, along with other aircraft like the Boeing 307. The plant underwent a significant expansion in 1940 ...

More than 10,000 B-17s were produced, but only a few survive today, according to Boeing. The B-17G Flying Fortress was equipped with 11 to 13 machine guns and capable of a 9,600-pound bomb load.