B-58 Hustler/55-0666
Serial #: 55-0666
Construction #: 7
Civil Registration:
None
Construction #: 7
Civil Registration:
None
Model(s):
B-58A Hustler
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2021
B-58A Hustler
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2021
History:
First flight: March 20, 1958.
Used as a test aircraft by Convair, with a YJ79-GE-5 jet engine on a special centerline pod, 1958.
First flight: March 20, 1958.
Used as a test aircraft by Convair, with a YJ79-GE-5 jet engine on a special centerline pod, 1958.
- Flew 32 minutes at sustained Mach 2 with YJ79-GE-5 engines, November 8, 1958.
- Brought on charge: April 28, 1959.
- Retained by Convair for use as a test and evaluation aircraft
- Converted to YRB-58A, May 1, 1959.
- Made the longest B-58 early test program flight of 11 hours 15 minutes, August 16, 1962.
- Transferred to the 6510th Operational Maintenance Squadron (Air Force Systems Command) at Edwards AFB, CA, November 1962.
- Transferred to the 3345th Maintenance and Support Group (Air Training Command) at Chanute AFB, IL, May 1964.
- Redesignated GRB-58A for use as an instructional airframe, May 1965.
- Transferred to museum status and displayed at the Chanute AFB base air park, 1967
- Displayed as 61-2059.
- Later displayed as 55-0666
- Tranferred to the Chanute Air Museum, 1993.
- Damaged by museum staff while they were attempting to move the plane while the wheels on the main gear were locked up and the nose gear was irreparably fractured.
- Under restoration.
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