A “shark fin tail” B-17 called the “Swoose,” the plane is the sole surviving B-17 to have seen action in the Philippines in the opening days of World War II, according to the museum.

Aug. 23—The painstaking restoration of the world's only B-17 "D" in a hangar on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Area B exemplifies the kind of work to which National Museum of the U.S. Air ...

Not to the queue of the restoration team, however, as some of the museum specialists would like. The B-17 combat bomber, nicknamed "the Swoose," will head instead to the National Museum of the U.S ...

After more than a half-century mothballed in a Maryland warehouse of the National Air and Space Museum, a storied World War II bomber will ...