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((short description|Moniker for several B-17 and B-24 WWII aircraft))
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[[Image:Liberty Belle 05.jpg|thumb|right|The B-17 ''Liberty Belle'' about to take off from the 2005 [[Lumberton, North Carolina|Lumberton]] Celebration of Flight.]]
[[Image:Pratt-Whitney T-34 B-17 testbed NAN10-50.jpg|thumb|right|Sold as scrap on 25 June 1947,<!-- to Esperado Mining Co. of Altus, OK--> Pratt & Whitney subsequently bought B-17G [[United States military aircraft serial numbers|USAAF serial]] 44-85734 (shown with a [[Pratt & Whitney T34|T34 turboprop]] mounted in its nose) and operated it from 1947 to 1967 as a [[testbed aircraft]].<ref name="warbirdregistry1">((cite web|author=Scott Rose, warbirdsresourcegroup.org |url=http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17registry/b17-4485734.html |title=Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Registry – A Warbirds Resource Group Site |publisher=warbirdregistry.org |date= |accessdate=18 June 2012))</ref><!-- (as with 44-85747 and 44-85813).<ref>http://aerofiles.com/_boe.html ((Bare URL inline|date=May 2022))</ref-->]]
[[Image:Liberty Belle B-17G.JPG|thumb|right|The B-17 [[warbird]] ''Liberty Belle'' at [[El Cajon, California]] March 2008]]
[[Image:Bradley Air Museum (47).jpg|thumb|right|The aircraft that became the ''Liberty Belle'' on display at the [[New England Air Museum|Bradley Air Museum]] in the early 1970s. It was donated by Pratt & Whitney, which used it in this configuration as an [[testbed aircraft|engine testbed]].]]

'''''Liberty Belle''''' was a popular name for [[United States Army Air Forces]] (USAAF) aircraft during [[World War II]]; over two dozen known individual [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]]es and [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator]]s used the name.

The combat ''Liberty Belle''s were commemorated by two B-17s which used the name, with one still remaining as a static display: ''Miss Liberty Belle'' ([[United States military aircraft serial numbers|USAAF serial]] 44–83690) is displayed at the [[Grissom Air Museum]]. The Liberty Foundation flew a composite B-17 named ''Liberty Belle'' (constructed from two damaged aircraft (sn. 44-85734 and the rear part of sn. [[Champaign Lady|44-85813]])) as a [[warbird]] from 2004 until 2011, when it was destroyed in a fire after an emergency landing. It is currently under rebuild at the Brooks Aviation Center in Douglas, Georgia.<ref>((cite web|title=Miscellaneous B-17 Information|url=http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/mshwb17f.htm|accessdate=June 25, 2016))</ref><ref>((cite web|title=Restoring the Liberty Belle B-17|url=http://www.meetup.com/NEPilotsGroup/messages/boards/thread/23431802|publisher=Northeast Pilots Group. May 18, 2012|accessdate=June 25, 2016))</ref>((better source needed|date=January 2018))

==Restored ''Liberty Belle'' B-17==
Boeing B-17 (sn. 44–85734)<ref>((cite encyclopedia|url=http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1944_6.html |title=1944 USAAF Serial Numbers (44-83886 to 44-92098) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of American Aircraft |accessdate=3 March 2008 |publisher=Joseph F. Baugher |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107041313/http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1944_6.html |archivedate=7 January 2009 ))</ref> did not see combat in World War II, and was originally sold on 25 June 1947, as scrap to Esperado Mining Co. of [[Altus, Oklahoma]]; it was then sold again later that year for $2,700 to [[Pratt & Whitney]], which operated the B-17 as a heavily modified [[testbed aircraft]]<ref name="warbirdregistry1"/> (similar to B-17s sn. 44-85747 and sn. [[Champaign Lady|44-85813]]).<ref>((cite web|url=http://aerofiles.com/_boe.html |title=American airplanes: Boeing A-B |publisher=Aerofiles.com |date=14 February 2002 |accessdate=18 June 2012))</ref> Following these flights, it was donated to the [[New England Air Museum|Connecticut Aeronautical Historic Association]], where a [[Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado|tornado]] on 3 October 1979, blew another aircraft onto the B-17's midsection, breaking the [[fuselage]].

The B-17 was eventually purchased by aviation enthusiast Don Brooks, who formed the Liberty Foundation to exhibit it as the ''Liberty Belle''. Restoration began in 1992 with parts from another damaged B-17 (sn. 44–85813), performed by Tom Reilly and company/[[Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum]] (aka "Bombertown USA"), located at that time at [[Kissimmee Gateway Airport|Kissimmee Gateway field]], [[Kissimmee, Florida]]. She returned to the air on 8 December 2004 and had been touring the country offering the public rides on the bomber. The Liberty Foundation also took an historic overseas tour in July 2008 along the northern ferry route to England.

On the morning of 13 June 2011, ''Liberty Belle'' made a forced landing in [[Oswego, Illinois]], after taking off from [[Aurora Municipal Airport (Illinois)|Aurora Municipal Airport]] in [[Sugar Grove, Illinois]]. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot of a [[North American T-6 Texan]] being flown as a [[chase plane]] informed ''Liberty Belle''(('))s pilot that the B-17's inboard left wing was on fire and advised an immediate landing. The bomber landed successfully in a nearby field and the seven people on board were able to evacuate without injury; but due to the muddy ground in the field, fire engines could not reach it, allowing the fire to spread and destroy the aircraft.<ref>((cite news|last1=Sarkauskas|first1=Susan|last2=Santana|first2=Marco|title=Fire destroys WWII bomber in Oswego|url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110613/news/706139928|accessdate=7 January 2018|work=Daily Herald|publisher=Paddock Publications, Inc.|date=14 June 2011))</ref> The bomber's remains were stored in a hangar in Aurora for a few days before being taken back to its home at Brooks Aviation Inc in [[Douglas, Georgia]]. It is currently under rebuild to airworthy status, using the forward fuselage of another B-17 (sn. 44–83387)<ref>((cite web|title=Miss Vilma and Liberty Belle|url=https://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=45695|publisher=A2A Simulations|accessdate=June 25, 2016))</ref>((better source needed|date=January 2018)) and other new parts, but it is not known when the restoration will be completed.<ref>((cite web|title=B-17s: Where to find them|url=http://www.aerovintage.com/b17loc.htm|publisher=Aero Vintage Books|accessdate=June 25, 2016))</ref>

==Museum ''44-83690''==
''Miss Liberty Belle'' (sn. 44–83690), a B-17G, was modified postwar to serve with the United States Air Force as a [[unmanned aerial vehicle|drone]] director DB-17P, before being retired in 1958. It was on display at the [[Grissom Air Museum]] from 1961 to 2015, just outside the former [[Grissom Air Reserve Base|Grissom Field]] in central [[Indiana]] where it was displayed as sn. 42–31255, ''Miss Liberty Belle'' of the [[305th Operations Group|305th Bombardment Group]] stationed at [[RAF Chelveston]] that crashed in the English village of [[Wymington]] in 1944.

The aircraft was moved to the [[Museum of Aviation (Warner Robins)|Museum of Aviation]] at [[Warner Robins, Georgia]], in 2015 for restoration.<ref>((cite web|title=B-17G "Flying Fortress" Undergoing Restoration |url=http://www.museumofaviation.org/portfolio/b-17g-flying-fortress |website=Museum of Aviation |publisher=Museum of Aviation Foundation, Inc.|accessdate=7 January 2018))</ref>

==References==
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|image1=[http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17registry/b17-4485734-2.html 1950 with T-34 turboprop]
|image2=[http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b17registry/b17-4485734-3.html 2001 restoration]
|video1=[http://vimeo.com/3676927 2009 taxiing (vimeo)]
|video2=[http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/06/13/vo.bomber.crash.WLS 2011 fire (CNN)]
|video3=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Mi9WoQD_4 2011 fire (youtube)]
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