The B-17, Liberty Belle, took to the air for the first time in
almost four decades on 8 December 2004 putting the flying back into
Flying Fortress again. Don Brooks, founder of the Liberty
Foundation, was on hand to see the maiden flight as she circled
over the former Flying Tigers Warbird Museum (having been clobbered
into temporary closure by a number of consecutive hurricanes)
at the Kissimmee Gateway airport in Florida where she had spent the
last 14 years under restoration.