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First, you need to have B-17s of the same model in the pool. Click on the Intel button at the top and on the right of that screen, find the Aircraft Replacement Pool hypertext. Click that and check the status of the B-17s. If there are none in the pool, you would have to disband a group with the same model to get some in the pools and turn off replacements for every other group using that model.
Now, from section 16.2 in the manual:
Air units will automatically gain replacements under certain circumstances if aircraft are
available in the replacement pool and the air unit has been set to Accept Replacements. To get
replacement aircraft to flow automatically into an air unit, there must be planes in the pool and
one of the following cases must be true (the first true will take effect):
»» The air unit is located at a base with an airfield size of 1+ (or 0 if a
float-equipped group and the base is in a coastal hex) and the base
has over 20,000 supplies. Supplies will be expended at the base
and the unit will receive damaged planes from the pool (they may
repair before the next orders phase during the repair phase).
»» The air unit is located at a base and the HQ that the group is
assigned to is within transfer range of the air unit’s aircraft type,
and the HQ is located at a base with an airfield size of 1+ and has
over 20,000 supplies. Supplies will be expended at the HQ base
and the unit will receive damaged planes from the pool.
»» The air unit is located at a base and the Command level HQ that
the group is assigned to is within transfer range of the air unit’s
aircraft type, and the Command HQ is located at a base with
over 20,000 supplies. Supplies will be expended at the HQ base
and the unit will receive damaged planes from the pool.
There are a couple more paras about shib-based aircraft, then this:
If none of these conditions apply, land based air units may automatically have a sub unit
created for it at the base containing the HQ that the air unit is assigned to or the Command HQ
of the air unit’s HQ if it is not in the base. The base with the HQ must have supplies that are at
least equal to twice the base’s supply needs plus the supplies that will be expended in creating
the sub unit, the supply base must be within twice the maximum range of the aircraft type, and
there must be planes in the pool equal to:
»» 10 + (plane build rate / 2)
If these conditions are met, a sub unit of damaged planes will be placed at the HQ’s location
and supplies will be expended from the base. Note Japanese build rates are usually 0 when
production is on. Another subgroup will not be formed for the air unit until at least 7 days have
elapsed.
A maximum of 12 planes will be added to a group as replacements every 7 days.
A group may take replacements in their national home base, subject to the above conditions.
It acts as a Command HQ base.
In scenarios with production set to On, all new air units (including reinforcements, reformed
disbanded and withdrawn groups) must take planes from the replacement pool to fill out the
air unit when it arrives. Note that reinforcement units will arrive with the number of planes
specified in the editor. These planes are not drawn from the pool as they are deemed to have
been supplied elsewhere.
Aircraft units may receive replacements during the Supply Operations Phase. Air units on
airfields only check for replacements 2 out of every 3 days, while air units on ships check
for replacements every day. Any unit, excluding fragments, with less aircraft (Total Ready,
Repairing, and Reserve) than its maximum aircraft level is eligible for replacements (the main
unit’s maximum ready aircraft level is checked versus the total number of aircraft from the
main unit and sub-units). Air units with more losses will receive priority for replacements.
Air groups on carriers with more than 50% system or flood damage cannot receive
replacements.
Bases with more than 59% of service or runway damage cannot be used as a source for
replacements or upgrades.
Lots of ifs, ands and buts! 
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