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    Airframe Family: Convair B-58 Hustler
    Latest Model:TB-58A Hustler
    Last Military Serial:55-0668 USAF
    Construction Number:9
    Compressed ID:Convair TB-58A sn 55-0668 USAF cn 9...
    Latest Owner or Location:314th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, Little Rock, Arkansas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YB-58A-CF by Consolidated at Fort Worth, TX, USA.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0668.

    To 6592nd Test Squadron, ARDC (later AFSC), Carswell AFB, TX.
    Used for various special projects; Hughes AN/APQ-69 SLAR, Goodyear AN/APS-73.

    Originally scheduled to be first airframe fitted with J79-GE-9 engines for B-58B.

    Converted to a TB-58A.

    Transferred to 43rd Bombardment Wing, Carswell AFB, TX.

    From By September 1964 to January 1970

    Transferred to 43rd Bombardment Wing, Little Rock AFB, AR.
    Operated with markings: Wild Child II
    43rd Bombardment Wing, Little Rock AFB, AR. When sent to MASDC in 1/1970 it was the last B-58 to depart Little Rock AFB.

    Markings Applied: Peeping Tom

    16 January 1971

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number BQ081.

    1978

    Prepared for airlift to Texas on a C-5 Galaxy for the Southwest Aviation Museum at Carswell.

    Circa 30 January 1978


    Photographer: Wendell Montague
    Notes: at allied aircraft sales in Tucson I was taking panels off prepping for the guys from Ft Worth to come out to cut the wings off to get it in a C5 and home. Worked with the group in Ft Worth and when I joined the Air Force I was sent to DM

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 19 EMS/MXMFS, Little Rock AFB, AR.

    Circa 2 March 1981


    Photographer: Don Pyeatt saving last peacemaker
    Notes: being loaded for trip to FtWorth

    2 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at Southwest Aerospace Museum, Fort Worth - of a Convair TB-58A Hustler

    Circa 5 August 1992


    Photographer: Wendell Montague
    Notes: southwest air museum at Carswell

    11 December 2007


    Photographer: Zane Adams

    February 2012

    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Galveston, TX, to Little Rock, AR.

    Placed on display with 314th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, Little Rock, AR.
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