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Only 12 Boeing B-17 bombers from World War II remain capable of flight and one of them may not call Houston home for much longer.

"Texas Raiders," a B-17 flying with the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), is in danger of being dismantled, say its owners. The owner of the hangar housing "Texas Raiders" has decided to terminate the CAF lease, effective Nov. 30.

Link: http://generalaviationnews.com/main.asp ... M=13664.81

Too bad they can't bring it to Albuquerque.

That's to sad even after a six-year, $500,000 AD-compliance and corrosion repair process, members of the CAF Gulf Coast Wing have brought the vintage warbird to within nine months of completion.

And now all to the junk yard???
Anyone to build it a new hangar?????????

its sad to think that that will be the end of another one of the few i hope a fund goes out for a new hanger a b-17 in the air is one of the things i want to be able to show my children when i have them (few years to go yet)