08/12/2006. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "This aircraft was delivered to the USAAC on 28 March 1937 and assigned to the 49th Bombardment Squadron, 2d Bombardment Group, 2d Wing, General Headquarters Air Force, and based at Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia.

This was one of six 2d Bombardment Group Y1B-17s that flew on a goodwill flight from Miami, Florida, USA, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and back to Langley Field between February 17 and 27, 1938. The photo shows the aircraft flying over New York City prior to the flight.

In November 1939, this aircraft was one of the six 2d Bombardment Group Y1B-17s that departed Langley Field and flew to Panama, Peru, Paraguay and Brazil; the return flight was through Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. The flight dramatically demonstrated the strategic utility of long-range aircraft: the New York-Buenos Aires sea route took seventeen days and the Pan American Clippers took five days, the Fortresses did it in 34 hours.

By November 1942, the aircraft was at Amarillo Army Air Field, Texas. It was written off on January 15, 1943."

Read the type remarks on page 8273