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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:GNB-57B
    Last Military Serial:52-1584 USAF
    Construction Number:174
    Compressed ID:Martin GNB-57B sn 52-1584 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

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

    26 May 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-1584.

    1955

    Transferred to 405th Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bomb Wing, Laon AB, France.

    1961

    Transferred to Flight Test Division, Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, NY.

    Converted to a JB-57B by Martin.

    July 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    From December 1972 to After 1987

    Transferred to 3345th Maintenance and Supply Group, Chanute AFB, IL.

    1972

    Converted to a GNB-57B by Martin.
    Converted at Chanute.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By 1994

    Loaned to Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Portage, MI.

    Loaned to Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
    Museum name changed.
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    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    5 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Taken at the Kalamzoo MI Air Zoo

    By 2017

    Painted to represent a B-57B assigned to the 8th Tactical Bombardment Squadron during the Vietnam War.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
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