The Swoose

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The Swoose
The Swoose in bare metal finish, 1944
Type	Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Manufacturer	Boeing Airplane Company
Serial	40-3097
Owners and operators	USAF
In service	25 April 1941 to February 1944
Preserved at	Under restoration at the National Museum of the United States Air Force

The Swoose is a Boeing B-17D-BO Flying Fortress, USAAF serial number 40-3097, that saw extensive use in the Southwest Pacific theatre of World War II and survived to become the oldest B-17 still intact. It is the only early "shark fin"-tailed B-17 known to exist, and the only surviving B-17 to have seen action in the 1941–42 Philippines Campaign, operating on the first day of the United States entry into the war.^[1]