MAN O' WAR
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Serial #
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44-84076
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Model
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B-29B-60 BA Bell-Atlanta
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Current Location
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Strategic Air and Space Museum, Nebraska
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Status:
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Displayed
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HISTORY[]
- Accepted: 4 August 1945 - Bell Aircraft, Atlanta, Georgia
- Assigned: August 1945 - 2nd AF / 17th BOTW / 458th BG (VH) - (Walker AAF)
- Assigned: September 1945 - ATSC / 4121st AAFBU / San Antonio Air Depot (SAAD) - (Kelly AAF)
- Assigned: November 1945 - ATSC / 4196th AAFBU / Sacramento Air Depot (SAD) sub depot - (Victorville AAF)
- Stored / cocooned
- Assigned: May 1946 - ATSC / 4117th AAFBU / Warner Robins Air Depot (WRAD) - (Robins AAF)
- Stored
- Assigned: August 1946 - ATSC / 4119th AAFBU / Mobile Air Depot (MAD) sub depot - (Brookley AAF)
- Stored
- Assigned: April 1947 - SAC / 15th AF / 97th BG - (Smoky Hill AAF)
- (Triangle-O)
- Assigned: October 1947 - SAC / 15th AF / 28th BG (M) - (Rapid City AAF)
- (Triangle-S)(Percussion Steamboat)
- Deployed: 19 July 1948 / 19 October 1948 - (RAF Scampton)
- Show of force during Berlin Blockade
- Assigned: February 1949 - AMC / Sacramento Air Material Area - (McClennan AFB)
- Assigned: September 1949 - AMC / Oklahoma City Air Material Area - (Tinker AFB)
- Conversion to TB-29B
- Assigned: March 1951 - ADC / 11th Radar Calibration Sqd - (Hamilton AFB)
- Radar Site Evaluation & Calibration
- Deployment to McChord AFB
- Assigned: September 1952 - ADC / 112th Radar Calibration Sqd - (Hamilton AFB)
- Deployed to March AFB
- Assigned: February 1953 - ADC / Western Air Defense Force / 4th Radar Calibration Sqd - (Hamilton AFB)
- Taxi accident (class 2): 17 March 1953 (ground collision) - Hamilton AFB, California
- (Pilot: Lt Walter W Pine) - repaired
- Taxi accident (class 2): 17 March 1953 (ground collision) - Hamilton AFB, California
- Assigned: March 1954 - ADC / 4754th Radar Evaluation Flight (ECM) - (Hamilton AFB)
- Assigned: 8 July 1958 - ADC / 4754th Radar Evaluation Squadron - (Hamilton AFB)
- Assigned: July 1959 - SAC / 3902nd Air Base Wing - (Offutt AFB)
- Transferred: Strategic Air and Space Museum, Nebraska, Offutt AFB
- Currently on display 1959 - present
- Displayed as 0-484076 / Man-O-War
- Aircraft was recently put on indoor display.
- Underside painted black.
- No gun turrets installed.
- Undergoing full restoration