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The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (company Model 450) was a long range, six-engine, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The B-47's primary mission was to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union. With its engines carried in nacelles under the swept wing, the B-47 was a major innovation in post-World War II combat jet design, and contributed to the development of modern jet airliners.
The B-47 entered service with the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1951. It never saw combat as a bomber, but was a mainstay of SAC's bomber strength during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and remained in use as a bomber until 1965. It was also adapted to a number of other missions, including photographic reconnaissance, electronic intelligence and weather reconnaissance, remaining in service as a reconnaissance aircraft until 1969 and as a testbed until 1977.
Below is a list of airframes that survived military service.
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46-066 (D-03) 49-1901 (S-??) 50-0062 (D-03) 51-2075 (S-??) 51-2120 (D-94) 51-2315 (D-03) 51-2360 (R-03) |
51-2387 (D-??) 51-7066 (S-04) 51-7071 (D-??) 52-0166 (D-02) 52-0410 (P-02) 52-0412 (D-99) 52-0413 (D-99) |
52-0595 (D-96) 52-1412 (D-04) 53-2104 (D-03) 53-2135 (D-03) 53-2275 (D-07) 53-2276 (D-03) 53-2280 (S-04) |
53-2385 (D-04) 53-4213 (D-96) 53-4257 (D-94) 53-4296 (D-02) 53-4299 (D-04) |
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