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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:EB-57B
    Last Military Serial:52-1504 USAF
    Construction Number:087
    Compressed ID:Martin EB-57B sn 52-1504 USAF cn 08...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dyess Memorial Museum and Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Abilene, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-1504.

    By May 1961

    Transferred to 4926th Test Squadron (Sampling).

    By May 1961

    Converted to a NB-57B by Martin.

    From By May 1961 to February 1962

    Aircraft was deployed to RAAF East Sale to take part in USAF Crowflight deployments. Crowflight was the codename for United States high altitude radiological sampling in Australia from 1960 to 1966.

    By 1968

    Converted to an EB-57B by Martin.

    By 1968

    Transferred to 4713th DSES, First Air Force, Stewart Air Force Base, NY.

    By 1974

    Transferred to 117th DSES, 190th DSEG, Kansas ANG, Topeka ANGB, KS.
    Operated with markings: KANSAS

    By 1979

    Transferred to 134th DSES, 158th DSEG, Vermont ANG, Burlington ANGB, VT.
    Operated with markings: VERMONT

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By October 1982

    To Dyess AFB Airpark, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    6 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at Dyess AFB of Martin EB-57B

    Loaned to 7 BW/CVM, Dyess AFB, TX.

    To Linear Air Park/Texas Museum of Military History, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Dyess AFB Linear Air Park, TX.

    To Dyess Memorial Museum and Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    22 September 2022

    Markings Applied: 21534
    Repaint completed on this day. Marked as B-57B 52-1534 which was assigned to the 765th BS, 461st TBG. This aircraft crashed on November 29th, 1955 near the Texas/Mexico border near Laredo, TX. The pilot was killed.

    22 September 2022


    Photographer: Walter Nicolds
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