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Photograph by Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

B-17G "Flying Fortress" No. 44-83690

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress No. 44-83690 is a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber currently undergoing restoration at the Museum of Aviation near Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. It was built as a B-17G-95-DL by the Douglas Aircraft Company and delivered for use on May 9, 1945.”

Wikipedia article Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress No. 44-83690, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Heritage Museum Foundation, off US 31, Grissom Air Force Base, 46970
  • When was it listed? June 1993
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Pipe Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 93000540 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

19,156 words

This property stands in Pipe Creek Township. History of Miami County, published 1896 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Pipe Creek Township - 19,156 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of B-17G "Flying Fortress" No. 44-83690: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mill Creek Stone & Gravel Corp.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Terrell Jacobs Circus Winter Quarters0.7 miles2012
Shirk-Edwards House6.5 miles1995
Peru Westside Historic District6.5 miles2023
Peru Courthouse Square Historic District6.7 miles2018
James Omar Cole House6.7 miles1984
Miami County Courthouse6.7 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000540 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami CountyAll 18 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.