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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:WB-57F
    Last Military Serial:63-13293 USAF
    Construction Number:M.173
    Compressed ID:Martin WB-57F sn 63-13293 USAF cn M...
    Latest Owner or Location:NASA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-57B-MA by Martin at Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-1583.

    Remanufactured as a RB-57F-CF by General Dynamics at Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 63-13293.

    Redesignated as WB-57F.

    24 April 1972

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number BM0065.

    Circa 1985

    Placed on display with Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, GA.
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    By August 1988


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Aviation at Robbins AFB.

    12 March 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    July 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    July 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    8 February 2005


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at the Warner Robins Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, GA. U.S.A.

    By 2011

    In the inventory of NASA.

    From 2011 to 2013

    Parts were used to resurrect 63-13295 as N972NA (NASA972) during 2011-2013.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

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    unreviewed imported data.
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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
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Rob Nispeling
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