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B-45 TORNADO/48-0017



Serial #: 48-0017
Construction #:
  Unknown
Civil Registration:
  None
  Model(s):
  B-45C Tornado
  ERB-45C Tornado
  JRB-45C Tornado
  NRB-45C Tornado
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2016

History:
Manufactured by North American Aviation, Long Beach CA.
Delivered to U.S. Air Force as 48-0017.
- BOC: August 15, 1950.
- SOC: November 1971.
- Assigned to 2750th Air Base Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, September 1950.
- Transferred to HARDC, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, April 1951.
-- Converted to ERB-45C.
- Transferred to Wright Air Development Center (ARDC), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, June 1951.
- Loaned to Pratt & Whitney Corp., Hartford, CT, June 1954.
-- Used for testing.
- Converted to JRB-45C, November 1955.
- Converted to NRB-45C, April 1957.
- Transferred to Strategic Air & Space Museum, November 1971.
- Last RB-45C in service.
Strategic Air & Space Museum Ashland, NE, 1971-2016.

Source(s):
Preserved US Military Aircraft
Strategic Air & Space Museum
Photo Source(s):
Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group

Research Assistance:
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