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    Airframe Family: Boeing B464 / B-52 Stratofortress
    Latest Model:GB-52D Stratofortress
    Last Military Serial:55-0095 USAF
    Construction Number:17211
    Latest Owner or Location:Valiant Air Command Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a B-52D-60-BO by Boeing at Seattle, Washington, USA.

    1 March 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0095.

    March 1957

    Transferred to 42nd Bombardment (Heavy) Wing (Strategic Air Command), Loring AFB, ME.

    October 1959

    Transferred to 92nd Bombardment (H) Wing (SAC), Fairchild AFB, WA.

    July 1960

    Transferred to 4170th Strategic Wing (SAC), Larson AFB, WA.
    Deployed to Fairchild AFB.

    July 1962

    Transferred to 4138th Strategic Wing (SAC), Turner AFB, GA.

    February 1963

    Transferred to 484th Bombardment (H) Wing (SAC), Turner AFB, GA.
    Deployed to McCoy AFB, FL.

    March 1966

    Transferred to 340th Bombardment (H) Wing (SAC), Bergstrom AFB, TX.

    July 1966

    Transferred to 306th Bombardment (H) Wing (SAC), McCoy AFB, FL.

    While based at McCoy AFB, this aircraft deployed to Anderson AB, Guam; Kadena AB, Japan; Castle AFB, CA; and U Tapao RTAFB, Thailand.

    April 1970

    Transferred to 22nd Bombardment (H) Wing (SAC), March AFB, CA.

    While based at March AFB, the aircraft deployed to Anderson AB, Guam, and U Tapao RTAFB, Thailand.

    June 1972

    Transferred to 7th Bombardment (H) Wing (SAC), Carswell AFB, TX.

    May 1983

    Transferred to Chanute Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL.

    May 1983

    Redesignated as GB-52D.

    June 1990

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    At some point the aircraft was broken up and the cockpit section was used as a crew extraction trainer for fire-fighting trainees.

    From 1993 to By 5 April 2016

    To Chanute Air Museum, Chanute AFB (formerly), Rantoul, IL.
    View the Location Dossier

    The cockpit section is painted in the nuclear response scheme from the B-52s early service as a nuclear deterrent bomber. The white belly was intended to reflect some of the heat and radiation following a nuclear blast. (Chanute Museum).

    20 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    17 September 2015

    To Valiant Air Command Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    5 April 2016


    Photographer: John Mueller
    Notes: Cockpit, Photo taken at Valiant Air Command Museum, Titusville Florida.

    5 April 2016


    Photographer: John Mueller
    Notes: EW seat,Photo taken at Valiant Air Command Museum, Titusville Florida.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Chanute Air Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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