This is the B-17G Miss Angela, home based at the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California. The Palm Springs museum is a newer facility, having been built especially for the air museum, which opened in 1996. The Palm Springs museum is part of the Planes Of Fame museums, which also has locations at Chino, CA, and near the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Many of the aircraft that are in the Palm Springs museum were once housed at the former Planes Of Fame East in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. That museum was owned by Bob Pond, a war hero who returned home to Minneapolis to make his fortune building those rotary floor scrubbers that you see in grocery stores. When Pond retired to Palm Springs, he moved the museum and aircraft, too. The Planes Of Fame East once owned the B-17 Thunderbird. That B-17 was sold to the Lone Star Flight museum, and Pond later purchased Miss Angela to fill the void.