This B-17G (44-83546) was accepted by the USAAF on April 3, 1945. Later it was then moved to Patterson Field, Ohio for storage and then converted to a CB-17G (transport conversion) and assigned to Air Transport Command at San Francisco. In 1948 it was redesignated a VB-17G (staff transport) and assigned to Andrews AFB, followed by Offutt AFB and then to Japan during the Korean War.