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    Airframe Family: Boeing B450 / B-47 Stratojet
    Latest Model:NRB-47E Stratojet
    Last Military Serial:53-4257 USAF
    Construction Number:4501281
    Compressed ID:Boeing NRB-47E sn 53-4257 USAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Charles B Hall Airpark, Tinker AFB (north side), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a RB-47E-45-BW by Boeing at Wichita, KS, USA.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-4257.

    Circa 1956

    Transferred to Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
    Used as test bed.

    Converted to a JRB-47E.

    Converted to a NRB-47E.

    This aircrafts entire career was at ADC, WPAFB for use as a test aircraft.

    In the inventory of National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Circa 1963

    Loaned to Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.
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    Circa 1963

    Placed on display with Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX.
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    Loaned to 72 ABW/XPX, Tinker AFB, OK.

    28 October 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: RB-47E Stratojet on display at the Confederate Air Forces Harlingen base, Texas in October 1979.

    June 1986

    Placed on display with Charles B Hall Airpark, Tinker AFB (north side), Oklahoma City, OK.
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    April 1998


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at Tinker AFB, OK.

    4 April 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    12 July 2015


    Photographer: Tom Tessier

    4 May 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Tinker, OK, USA
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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    B-47.Com
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Tinker Air Force Base
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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