Dates

Event

Constructed as a B-52G-95-BW by Boeing at Wichita, Kansas, USA.

10 September 1959

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 58-0183.

By May 1986

Transferred to 97BW, Blytheville AFB, AR.

Circa 24 May 1986

Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Mildenhall.

24 May 1986

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: B-52G Stratofortress of 97th Bombardment Wing at Blytheville AFB (now known as Eaker AFB) on display at the 1986 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

Transferred to 2nd BW, 596th BS, Barksdale AFB, LA.

From 16 January 1991 to 17 January 1991

Was one in a group of B-52Gs used in operation under the name Secret Squirrel making the return flight to Barksdale AFB to fire 39 AGM-86C cruise missiles on the first night of Desert Storm.

By 1991

Markings Applied: Valkyrie, 0183

9 July 1991

Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number BC0373.

To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

By 11 August 1991

Placed on display with Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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By 11 August 1991

Markings Applied: Valkyrie

11 August 1991

Photographer: Robert Nichols

Circa 1996

Photographer: Ken Videan
Notes: At Pima museum, Arizona.

16 October 2000

Photographer: Tom Tessier
Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

9 September 2011

Photographer: Mike Henniger

9 September 2011

Photographer: Mike Henniger

31 March 2017

Photographer: Larry Johnson
Notes: At Pima Air Museum

17 October 2017

Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
Notes: In Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 17. October 2017