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    Airframe Family: Convair B-58 Hustler
    Latest Model:B-58A Hustler
    Last Military Serial:59-2437 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:General Dynamics, Kelly Field (formerly Kelly AFB), San Antonio, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-58A.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-2437.

    Transferred to USAF 43rd BW, Little Rock AFB, AR.
    Operated with markings: Firefly 2

    Markings Applied: Rigleys Baby

    16 July 1968

    Involved in an incident.
    Right main landing gear collapsed on landing. Heavily damaged and mostly stripped of parts and used as a ground trainer.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to City of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.

    Placed on display with General Dynamics, Kelly Field (formerly Kelly AFB), San Antonio, TX.
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    November 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Kelly AFB, TX.

    By 28 December 2011


    Photographer: Zane Adams
    Notes: B-58 59-2437 on display at the former Kelly AFB(Kelly Field)in front of the General Dynamics building, in San Antonio, TX. It is accessible to the public.
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