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One of the most impressive B-17 restoration efforts presently underway is taking place within the Champaign Aviation Museum's hangar at Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio. While the airframe is listed in the books as belonging to B-17G 44-85813, it actually incorporates parts from several different B-17s. Jerry Shiffer initiated this project in 2005, but tragically he lost his life in an aviation accident shortly after the restoration began. His family decided to continue the project in his honor, and so some seventeen years later, an almost fully-restored Flying Fortress fuselage is sitting in the hangar at Grimes Field. This B-17 is now known as Champaign Lady. ....

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