B17g F-BEEA
Idle curiosity ..... in the late 1960's I remember seeing a B17G Flying Fortress registered F-BEEA at Port Moresby airport in Papua New Guinea. It was owned and operated by a French geophysical company.
Google tells me the aircraft was destroyed by fire in filming the "Memphis Belle" in the UK in 1989.
Just curious - what was the aircraft used for by the French geophysical company - survey, personnel or equipment transport?? One would have thought that, 23 years after the end of World War II, the economics would be against commercially operating this type of aircraft?
Last edited by Woomera; 15th Nov 2004 at 03:07.