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Old 04-13-2004 | 12:20 PM
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I have several photos of this plane (got them as documentation for a B-52 I am building) and it is painted silver and white. Typical for the late 50's early 60's, white on the bottom surfaces, natural aluminum everywhere else. In this case, the plane has the natural aluminum painted silver[:'(]. This plane has SAC and 28th bomb wing logos and it is obviously in a museum, but I don't know which one. It does not match the B-52D on display at South Dakota Air & Space Museum, home of the 28th bomb wing. The B-52 there is done in Vietnam era black bottom camouflage top scheme.

I am pretty sure this is not one of the Edwards AFB "motherships". . The Edwards mothership would be historically significant in it's role as mothership, not repainted as a run-of-the-mill SAC bomber. Also, the mothership would have a notch in the trailing edge of the right wing. I am pretty sure that B-52 is still at Edwards. Too bad they shut down the museum there due to security concerns after 9-11.