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    Airframe Family: Boeing B464 / B-52 Stratofortress
    Latest Model:B-52G-125-BW Stratofortress
    Last Military Serial:59-2579 USAF
    Construction Number:464342
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-52G-125-BW sn 59-2579 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tillamook Air Museum, Tillamook Airport (OTK), Tillamook, Oregon

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-52G-125-BW by Boeing at Wichita, Kansas, USA.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-2579.

    From By 1984 to After 1987

    Transferred to Grand Forks AFB, ND.
    Operated with markings: Boodrow
    Brian Crawford comments (2016): I was a crew chief on this bird with SSgt robbin Rhodes from 1984-1987.

    By June 1990

    Transferred to 379th Bombardment Wing, Wurtsmith AFB, MI.

    24 February 1991

    Transferred to 806th Bomb Wing (Provisional), RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.
    Conducted bombing operations against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.

    9 March 1991

    Transferred to Wurtsmith AFB, MI.

    12 November 1991

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number BC395.

    28 August 2000

    Scrapped.

    25 June 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Not many B-52s were in the private yards surrounding D-M AFB, but this one was the exception, lingering on in a corner of ARM/ DMI. Its B-52G 59-2579. The centre section shown here was scrapped, butits nose lives on in Scroggins, Nevada.

    To Southern Utah Air Museum, Washington, UT.
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    January 2016


    Photographer: Doug Scroggins
    Notes: B-52G, msn 59-2579 is seen here at Scroggins Aviation facility in Las Vegas, NV. (2016)

    By 18 January 2016

    To Scroggins Aviation Mockup and Effects, Las Vegas, NV.
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    Circa September 2021

    Loaned to Tillamook Air Museum, Tillamook Airport (OTK), Tillamook, OR.
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    19 November 2021


    Photographer: Steve Heeb

    19 November 2021


    Photographer: Steve Heeb

    19 November 2021


    Photographer: Steve Heeb

    19 November 2021


    Photographer: Steve Heeb

    10 September 2023


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: Restored at Tillamook
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    Doug Scroggins
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