1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.

Ex N2566B, USAF 48-626, but painted as 48-622. This was the military version of the Northrop N-23 Pioneer. Twenty were built but were found to be underpowered, and were soon used as ground instruction airframes. They were sold off in 1955 to civil users, and this one went to Mexico as XA-LOU before going to the museum in the early 1990s.

Ex T.2-244. Donated to the museum by the Spanish government in 1971. Now in storage.

Ex 48-581.

4/45: TOS USAAF. Assigned to the 552nd BS/381st BG, RAF Ridgewell, England. It was the last plane assigned to this unit; did not see combat but was sent back to the USA after the war ended in Europe. 1948: Converted to MB-17G operating in the flying bomb project with the Guided Missile Wing, Eglin AFB, FL. Later converted to TB-17G. Then it went to the 3205th Drone Squadron, Eglin; converted to DB-17G and then DB-17P. 17 June '57: Flown to the Air Force Museum at Patterson Field, OH. 1988: Traded to the Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB for the recently restored "Shoo, Shoo, Shoo Baby.

1/44: TOS. 3/44: 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn. 29 May 44: 24th mission; made forced landing in Sweden; interred. 11/45: Modified as a transport for a Danish Airline. 3/48: TOS Danish Air Force. 10/53: Placed in storage. 3/56: Flying for geographical survey work. 1968: French presented the plane to the US Secretary of the Air Force. 7/72: Delivered to Dover AFB, DE. 1978-1988: Restored to full airworthy factory condition. 13 Oct 88: Flown to the Air Force Museum. 3/18: Removed from display. 6 Dec 21: Disassembly began for shipment to the National Air & Space Museum.

1/44: TOS. 3/44: 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn. 29 May 44: 24th mission; made forced landing in Sweden; interred. 11/45: Modified as a transport for a Danish Airline. 3/48: TOS Danish Air Force. 10/53: Placed in storage. 3/56: Flying for geographical survey work. 1968: French presented the plane to the US Secretary of the Air Force. 7/72: Delivered to Dover AFB, DE. 1978-1988: Restored to full airworthy factory condition. 13 Oct 88: Flown to the Air Force Museum. 3/18: Removed from display. 6 Dec 21: Disassembly began for shipment to the National Air & Space Museum.

7/42: TOS USAAF, assigned to the 324th Bombardment Squadron/91st Bombardment Group (Heavy). Beginning 11/42: Operating out of Bassingbourn, England the "Memphis Belle" flew 25 combat missions. 8 June 1943: Arrived in the USA, assigned to 4 different units until 8/45 when SOC. 3/46: Sold to City of Memphis, TN for $350. Lots of history until moved to Air Force Museum for restoration in Oct 2005. 2009-2018: Restored. Place on display 17 May 2018

25 Apr '41: TOS USAAC. Only US military aircraft to fly a combat mission on the first day of the US entry into WWII and remain in continuous military flying service throughout WWII. 7 Dec '41: Flew on the first U.S. combat mission in the Philippines and then had a long history in the war. 1/49: Donated to the National Air Museum. Lots of changes in storage locations. 4/61: Transported to the Paul Garber Restoration Facility in Silver Hill, MD, for future restoration. 2008: Transported to the NMUSAF in sections by rail in 2008 where restoration began in 2010.

The only B-10 version still in existence is this model 139WA export version sold to the Argentine Navy in 1938 (their s/n 0080), and used for training ground crews as late as the 1960s; it was last used as a ground-training tool for Argentine engineering students at the "Jorge Newberry" National School of Technical Education, No. 1, in Buenos Aires. It was acquired by the USAF museum on 21 August 1970 and is now displayed restored in the markings of a B-10 from 1934.

This replica was completed by the Air Force Museum in 2002, using some original parts and original blue-prints. First designated as MB-2 before the 1919 designation system, the NBS-1 flew for the first time on 3 Sep 1920. The NBS-1 had unique folding wings to enable it to be parked in smaller hangars. It was powered by two 420 hp V-12 Liberty engines mounted on the lower wing. Armament consisted of five .30 cal. machine guns and 2000 lbs of bombs.

Ca.1962: TOS USAF as a T-37B, then modified as the prototype T-37C. 1963: Converted to YAT-37D as prototype for a counter-insurgency attack aircraft; was given engines of 2400 lbst and six underwing pylons as well as the wing-tip fuel tanks. 12/64: Flown to the Air Force Museum. 8/66: Returned to service with the USAF due to high losses of A-1 Skyraiders in Vietnam. Testing was resumed as the aircraft was redesignated YA-37A as a prototype for the A-37A, and later brought up to A-37A standards. 7/70: Flown to the Air Force Museum.

Acquired by East German Air Force in November 1986. In October 1990 became part of the combined German Air Force. In March 1991 transferred to the USAF at Ramstein AB, and received at the USAF Museum in 2003. Photo take in the restoration storage hangar.

This was the second of two T-46 trainers constructed. The first is on display at Edwards AFB, CA. This photo was taken in the USAF Museum restoration storage hangar. It is still wearing its AMARC storage number of TM-002.

When the US Air Force visited Avro Canada in 1953 to look at the all weather CF-100 fighter, a "special projects group" showed them plans for a circular disk-shaped aircraft known as Project Y-2. The USAF agreed to fund the project that resulted in two Avrocar test vehicles. Control problems with the aircraft out of ground effect couldn't be overcome and the project was cancelled in 1961. Pictured is the first Avrocar (58-7055 ) that went to the Air Force. The second (59-4975) is in the collection of the US Army Aviation Museum.

This B-52D saw extensive combat in Vietnam. On 9 April 1972 it was hit by a SA-2 surface to air missile and was badly damaged, but was repaired and flew another four missions. It was flown to the museum in 1978 and is now on display in the Southeast Asia Gallery.

This a/c dropped the atomic bomb Fat Man over Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945. After the war, the 509th Bomb Group returned to the U.S. and was stationed at Roswell AFB, NM. In 1946 this a/c was earmarked for the USAF Museum and put in long term storage at Tucson. It was restored to flying condition and flown to the USAF Museum, arriving 26 September 1961. Shown here in the outdoor aircraft display area next to the original museum. It is currently on display in the WW 2 Gallery in the current museum.

Originally built as a B-47E, this a/c sent it's active service being used as a test a/c at both Edwards AFB and Wright-Patterson AFB. It was the first USAF a/c with a fly-by-wire control system. It was retired to the museum in 1969, but is now on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, NM.