Texas Raiders | |
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Texas Raiders during the 2019 Wings over Houston Airshow | |
Type | Boeing B-17G-95-DL Flying Fortress/PB-1W |
Manufacturer | Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California |
Construction number | AC-1862 |
Manufactured | July 12, 1945 |
Registration | N7227C |
Serial | 44-83872 / BuNo. 77235 |
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Last flight | November 12, 2022 |
Fate | Destroyed in mid-air collision |
Texas Raiders was an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-17G-95-DL built by Douglas Long Beach. In 1967, it was purchased by the Commemorative Air Force's Gulf Coast Wing "Texas Raiders" group, which maintained and flew the aircraft out of Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport in Conroe, Texas. The aircraft was destroyed on November 12, 2022, by a mid-air collision with a P-63 Kingcobra at an air show at Dallas Executive Airport, Texas, that killed all five occupants and the P-63 pilot.[2]
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