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    Airframe Family: Bell X-1
    Latest Model:X-1E
    Last Military Serial:46-0063 USAAF
    Construction Number:2
    Compressed ID:Bell X-1E sn 46-0063 USAAF cn 2
    Latest Owner or Location:Edwards AFB, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a X-1E.

    11 October 1946

    First flight.

    Circa 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 46-0063.

    1949


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent
    Notes: XS-1 on the ramp with the B-29 mothership in 1949. This is the second XS-1 built; it later was converted into the X-1E. Unlike the XS-1-1, which was flown by the Air Force, the XS-1-2 was flown mostly by Bell and NACA pilots.

    1949


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    1949


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    1956


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    1956


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    December 1960

    Placed on display with Edwards AFB, Palmdale, CA.
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    1 October 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Edwards Air Force Base, California

    September 1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA

    1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA

    8 October 2010


    Photographer: Mike Hill
    Notes: 2010 photo - preserved at Edwards AFB, California
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
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