Liberty Belle was a popular name for United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) aircraft during World War II; over two dozen known individual Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators used the name.
The B-17 Liberty Belle about to take off from the 2005 Lumberton Celebration of Flight.
Sold as scrap on 25 June 1947, Pratt & Whitney subsequently bought B-17G USAAF serial 44-85734 (shown with a T34 turboprop mounted in its nose) and operated it from 1947 to 1967 as a testbed aircraft.
The B-17 warbird Liberty Belle at El Cajon, California March 2008
The aircraft that became the Liberty Belle on display at the Bradley Air Museum in the early 1970s. It was donated by Pratt & Whitney, which used it in this configuration as an engine testbed.
Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is a public airport opened in April 1966, located in the village of Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States, 8 miles (13 km) west of the city of Aurora, both in Kane County. The airport is owned and operated by the City of Aurora. It is 50 miles (80 km) west of Chicago and is designated as a reliever airport for Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports.
Aurora Municipal Airport
Aurora Municipal Airport (west side)
Air Classics Museum building
Air Classics Museum display