@ Palm Springs, CA
June 2022
One of the WWII warbirds on display at the Palm Springs Air Museum is “Miss Angela”, a B-17G Flying Fortress painted with the markings of the 34th Bomber Group, 8th Air Force. Delivered in June 1945, this Flying Fortress never saw any combat and was used in a variety of roles before being surplused in 1956 and sold in 1959. This aircraft then spent twenty years fighting wildfires before an incomplete restoration begun in 1983. Restoration later completed in 1991, traded to Bob Pond in 1993 and moved to current location in 2000. At this time “Miss Angela” is one of 46 complete surviving B-17 airframes in existence. Of the 12,731 B-17s produced, 8,680 were the G-variant, the last model of the line.
