US-based restorer Mike Kellner is continuing to make progress on his plan to return Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress 41-2595 to the air. The project has acguired the fuselage and wings from a Douglas A-26 Invader (formerly with the Collings Foundation) and a Grumman F9F Cougar, which are to be sold to help fund the restoration. Mike bought the bomber, nicknamed Desert Rat, at a junkyard in Maine in 1984. Built in 1941, it was originally attached to the 97th Bomb Group in Sarasota, which used it as a trainer. In 1943 it was converted into an XC-108A transport before being deployed to Indochina in March 1944.
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