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B-18A NMUSAF

37-0469.

Serial Number 37-0469 is a Douglas B-18A Bolo medium bomber that is currently on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. It was one of the first Bolos to be built, and was stationed at Wright Field from 1939 to 1942.

37-0469 was later sold into civilian use as a crop duster, then was placed in a scrap yard. It was acquired by the museum in 1971 and restored for display. 

It is now painted as a B-18A that served with the 88th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939.

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