One such aircraft was B-17G 44-85531, registered as N809Z, which was used in trials of the innovative Fulton Skyhook recovery ...

Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t finished in time to join World War II, but instead spent its 74 years ...