Strategic Air Command B-47E on practice approach to RAF Burtonwood, Lancashire, whilst on a 90-day tour of duty based at RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire.

The B-47E was delivered to the USAF on 14 February 1955. Over its career it was assigned to the Strategic Air Command and based at Andersen Air Base on Guam and at March Air Force Base. The aircraft was retired from USAF service in 1962. It was retrieved from the China Lake Naval/ Air Weapons Station and brought to the museum in pieces in January 1988 and reassembled that year.

Strategic Air Command B-47E displayed at the 1956 USAF Armed Forces Day show at RAF Burtonwood, Lancashire. It is fitted with two large under-wing extra fuel tanks.

Wichita-built B-47E wearing the blue nose band of Strategic Air Command. On display at the USAF base of Sculthorpe with an RAF Vulcan wearing the white 'anti-nuclear flash' scheme in the background.

Strategic Air Command Boeing B-47E Stratojet 34222 on final approach to RAF Burtonwood (Lancashire) (closed) in September 1956. Usual SAC blue nose-band is not present. Boeing-built at Wichita.

The six-engined B-47 was America's first long-range jet bomber.

Used as a test bed at Wright-Patterson AFB under the designation JB-47E in the 1960s, this was the first USAF aircraft with a fly-by-wire control system. Added to the Museum in 1969 and displayed until 2003, latterly inside, when replaced by RB-47H 53-4299. Now stored outside the Museum's Restoration Hangar