OXNARD : Airport to Offer Tours of Restored Flying Fortress
Sentimental Journey, a restored World War II bomber that tours the United States every summer, will be on display today through Wednesday at Oxnard Airport.
The B-17G Flying Fortress is scheduled to land at the airport at noon today. For $3, visitors may tour the inside of the bomber from noon to 7 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
The airplane belongs to the Arizona Wing of the Confederate Air Force, a worldwide nonprofit group that preserves World War II planes. It came off the Boeing assembly line in late 1944 and served in the Pacific during the war.
After the war it served as an air-sea rescue craft, but went into military storage in 1959. Before it was restored by Arizona Wing members, the bomber was used to fight forest fires.
The four-engine airplane is one of nearly 13,000 B-17s built during the war. Only eight have been restored to flying condition in the United States.
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