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    Airframe Family: Boeing B464 / B-52 Stratofortress
    Latest Model:NB-52E Stratofortress
    Last Military Serial:57-0119 USAF
    Construction Number:464108
    Compressed ID:Boeing NB-52E sn 57-0119 USAF cn 46...
    Latest Owner or Location:Edwards AFB - Radar and Photo Range, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a NB-52E.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-0119.

    January 1966

    To General Electric Flight Test.

    Used as engine testbed for TF39 and CF6.

    1972

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Put in long term storage.

    2 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 57-0119 - NB-52E Stratofortress - Edwards AFB Aircraft in open store at Edwards since 1972 following tests on the TF39 and CF6 engines. Later broken up on site with explosive charges

    To Edwards AFB-Radar and Photo Range, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, CA.
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    1991

    Scrapped.
    Seen at Rogers Dry Lake in three pieces after being blown up with explosives.

    19 April 2012


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Apparently its destruction was insisted upon by the Soviet disarmament team. For some reason it was blown up at the edge of the lakebed, and then just left there. NB-52E, 57-119.
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