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Texas Raiders
was an American
Boeing
B-17
Flying Fortress
built by
Douglas-Long Beach
. In 1967, it was purchased by a group of the
Commemorative Air Force
's
Gulf Coast Wing
, which maintained and flew the aircraft out of
Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport
in
Conroe, Texas
. It was destroyed on November 12, 2022,
in a mid-air collision
with a
Bell
P-63
Kingcobra
at an
air show
at
Dallas Executive Airport
. All five people on board
Texas Raiders
and the pilot of the
P-63
were killed. This photograph, taken in 2019 at
Ellington Airport
in
Houston
, shows
Texas Raiders
re-enacting a scene from the film
Tora! Tora! Tora!
during a simulated attack by members of the Commemorative Air Force's Pearl Harbor re-enactment group.
Photograph credit: Alan Wilson
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