Nine-O-Nine was named in honor of the 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Squadron plane of the same name. She completed 140 missions without an abort or loss of a crewman.
Boeing B-17G
Flying Fortress
Nine O Nine is operated by the Collings Foundation. One week after this photo was taken, Nine O Nine was caught in a crosswind and rolled of the end off a runway in Pennsylvania. She was badly damaged.
View a photo of the Pennsylvania crash..
Sadly, this aircraft crashed, again, shortly after takeoff on 2 October 2019, at Bradley International Airport, just outside of Hartford, Connecticut. The pilots tried to return to the airport when it crashed at 9:54 a.m., killing seven of the 13 people on board.