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The Hangar Thirteen Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit rebuilding the Boeing B-17F "Lucky Thirteen."
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40 Lindbergh Lane
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About Hangar Thirteen
Hangar Thirteen was founded by Ray Moore as a means of paying tribute to the thousands of US Army airmen who fought in history’s largest aerial confrontation. Inspired by his great-uncle, Marvin Hudson, Ray began rebuilding the Boeing B-17 Lucky Thirteen of the 384th Bombardment Group. Hudson was the line-chief of the group’s 546th Bombardment Squadron, and the sole surviving photo of Lucky Thirteen shows him supervising repair work nearby.
Lucky Thirteen will indeed be a unique aircraft. She will be one of only two surviving late-B-17Fs, and the only one of the two to have ever seen combat. Furthermore, she will be the only surviving B-17 to pay tribute to those aircrews who fought and died in the bombing campaigns against aircraft factories and ball-bearing plants in the autumn of 1943.
