2010年10月19日 · In May 1945, the Navy received one B-17G from Douglas Aircraft 2, via the US Army Air Force (USAAF). The aircraft was given BuNo 34114, modified to XPB-1W 1 configuration, and assigned to a Special Project Unit at NAS Squantum, 15 MA for use in electronics development projects.

During the last year of World War II and shortly thereafter, the US Navy acquired 48 former USAAF B-17s for ASW patrol work. Initially these aircraft operated under their original USAAF designations but at the end of July they were given a Navy designation of PB-1W. The B stood for Boeing and the W stood for anti-submarine warfare.

Designated PV-1 by the United States Navy (US Navy), it entered combat in 1943 in the Pacific. The bomber was also used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), which designated it the Lockheed B-34 (Lexington) and B-37 as a trainer.

2018年10月8日 · Like deck-based TBM-3W, PB-1W coast-based patrol aircraft did not make it to the war. The transfer of the first five US Navy aircraft took place in April 1946.

2009年8月14日 · The Boeing Model 50 PB-1 and PB-2 was a Naval Aircraft Factory project designed in 1924 by Isaac Laddon to be capable of a San Francisco-Hawaii flight. The project was turned over to Boeing where the PB-1 was completed with water-cooled Packard engines.

2020年10月22日 · Now awaiting dismantling, the old-timer was one of 18 Lockheed built B-17s transferred from the Army Air Corps to the Coast Guard in 1946 and reconfigured for search and rescue work. They were redesignated PB-1G. In addition to rescue work, some were flown until 1957 on annual International Ice Patrol and Ice Observation of Newfoundland.

The U.S. Navy (USN) received 48 B-17s towards the end of World War II, renamed PB-1 and used for maritime patrol missions. Post-war, the USN acquired 31 more B-17Gs, renamed PB-1W, and fitted with AN/APS-20 radar for Airborne Early …

The Boeing PB-1W was a conversion of the B-17 bomber. It was designed to provide US Navy fleets with airborne early warning against Japanese kamikaze attacks but did not enter service until after the end of the war. In 1945 the US Navy was suffering heavy losses from Japanese air attacks and decided to equip…

2007年12月8日 · The Boeing PB-1 was the US Navy designation for the B-17 Flying Fortress. Forty Eight B-17Gs were acquired by the navy during 1945 to be used to carry airborne early warning radar.

2019年6月30日 · All told, 16 PB-1s were requisitioned for the Coast Guard after the war (technically the USCG had requisitioned 20, but 2 were damaged in the transfer and 2 were witheld by the Navy for unspecified reasons), though a weird bit of post-war reorganization and bureaucracy meant that they technically were new B17-G airframes that the Navy modified ...