In July 1978, the 512th Military Airlift Wing moved this aircraft to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, for restoration by the volunteers of the 512th Antique Restoration Group. After a massive 10-year job of restoration to flying condition, the aircraft was flown to the National Museum of the USAF in October 1988. The museum transfered Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby to the Smithsonian Institution's National
Air and Space Museum in exchange for the B-17D The Swoose that the museum received in July 2008.
Boeing B-17G
Flying Fortress
This aircraft's first mission (Frankfurt, Germany) was on March 24, 1944, and last mission (Posen, Poland) on May 29, 1944, when engine problems forced a landing in neutral Sweden, where the airplane and crew were interned. In 1968, Shoo Shoo Baby was found abandoned in France and the French government presented the aircraft to the U.S. Air Force.