23 Dec '53: TOS USAF as KC-97G, assigned to 93rd Bombardment (Medium) Wing (SAC), Castle AFB, CA. From Jul '57 to 1976: Assigned to seven more units. Mar'65: Converted to KC-97L. Aug 1976: Flown to the Air Force Museum.

Photographer Peter R. Foster

Ca.1953: TOS USAF as a B-57B; assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, for test programs. 1967: 35th Tactical Fighter Wing/8th Bomb Squadron, Phan Rang, Vietnam. 10/69: Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ. 5/72: Robins AFB, GA; converted to EB-57B. 6/77: 117th Defense Systems Evaluations Squadron (ANG), Forbes Field, KS. 3/79: 134th Defense Systems Evaluations Squadron (ANG), Burlington, VT. 20 Aug 81: Flown to Air Force Museum. 2010: Restored to Vietnam War configuration.

1950: TOS USAF, but apparently never served on active duty. Instead, it was loaned to Pratt and Whitney for engine testing purposes. 1971: Flown to Wright Field for the Air Force Museum. It is now painted in the markings of the 47th Bomb Group (Light), based in England from 1952 to 1955.

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.

1970: TOS USAF and assigned to Armament Development and Test Center, Eglin AFB, FL. It was apparently damaged because in 1975 it became a ground trainer at Sheppard AFB, TX (and redesignated GA-7D). 1987: The United States Air Force Museum acquired it and marked it as 70-0970 in honor of Maj. Colin Clarke who received the Air Force Cross for actions in a rescue support mission in Vietnam. 1991: Replaced at the Museum by the real 70-0970 and was then donated to the VFW post in Wausau, WI where it is currently displayed.

28 Oct '42: TOS USAAF. By 8/43: HQ Squadron, FSEF Training Group at Eglin Field, FL. By 1/44: HQ Squadron, 1st SEG Training Group. 2/45: RFC, Cincinnati, OH. 1946 to 1949: Registered NX39502, owners used it for racing. Ca.1950: Registered as N39502. 1952: Stored iat Council Bluffs, IA, where it ended up being dismantled and stripped. 1954: Walter H. Erickson, Minneapolis, MN and trucked from Council Bluffs. 1963: Charles P. Doyle, Rosemount, MN; partially restored it before donating it to the Air Force Museum in 1971. 1973: Restored by the Minnesota ANG.

28 Oct '42: TOS USAAF. By 8/43: HQ Squadron, FSEF Training Group at Eglin Field, FL. By 1/44: HQ Squadron, 1st SEG Training Group. 2/45: RFC, Cincinnati, OH. 1946 to 1949: Registered NX39502, owners used it for racing. Ca.1950: Registered as N39502. 1952: Stored iat Council Bluffs, IA, where it ended up being dismantled and stripped. 1954: Walter H. Erickson, Minneapolis, MN and trucked from Council Bluffs. 1963: Charles P. Doyle, Rosemount, MN; partially restored it before donating it to the Air Force Museum in 1971. 1973: Restored by the Minnesota ANG.