Originally Posted by
Cazalet33
There is. MACR16020.
It's a B-17.
The 16020 number is easily confused with a totally unrelated aircraft which bore that number more than a decade earlier and crashed in the sea, probably somewhere to the Nor'ard of Howland.
Learn how to read B-17 registry
2439 delivered to Salt Lake SAD Dec 2, 1941; assigned to Project X Feb 11, 1942; transferred to Mobile Nov 16, 1942;
transferred to Sebring Jan 4, 1943; transferred to RFC and sold for scrap at
Kirtland, Albuquerque, NM Jun 15, 1945. Also listed as crashlanding New Britain Aug 7, 1942 MACR 16020.
That is airframe serial number 2439!
MACR I believe refers to Military aircraft crew report .
Have to be careful when you google numbers and simply reguritate the short paraphrased portion of the answer !!
I believe Most ( all? ) b-17s used Wight 182X series engines
I think the engine tag found on engine support identified the engines as a P&W Wasp series
Electra 10-EPowered by
Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp S3H1, 600 hp (450 kW) each; 15 produced. The version used by
Amelia Earhart.
And AFIK most all B-17s had 4 engines- and fabric covered flaps...etc
Hmmmm ...