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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:RB-57B
    Last Military Serial:N809NA NASA
    Construction Number:M.166
    Last Civil Registration:N516NA
    Latest Owner or Location:Edwards AFB, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-57B by Martin.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-1576.

    Converted to a RB-57B by Martin.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n NASA 237.

    New serial number assigned: N809NA NASA

    9 December 1971


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    19 September 1980

    To unknown owner with c/r N516NA.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Hampton, VA.

    1 October 1982


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    19 November 1982


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: Mike Woodley
    Notes: Edwards Air Force Base Open House 1982

    17 June 1993

    Civil registration, N516NA, cancelled.

    September 1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Air Force Flight Test Museum, Edwards AFB, CA

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 95 ABW/MU, Edwards AFB, CA.

    Placed on display with Edwards AFB, Palmdale, CA.
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    12 March 2014

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