16 Feb 62: TOS USAF; assigned to the 305th Bomb Wing, Bunker Hill (later Grissom) AFB, IN. The plane set numerous speed records during its career, the last of which was on 16 Oct 63 flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hrs, 35 min, 20.4 sec, averaging 938 mph. Speed record from Tokyo to Anchorage averaged 1,093 mph. 1969: Flew to Offut AFB, NE for display at the SAC Museum. 1997: Disassembled and trucked to the new museum facility in Ashland, NE.

Slide taken when Chanute AFB was still active. This is actually GRB-58A 55-666 painted as B-58A 61-2059. This a/c was originally built as a YB-58A. Transferred to Chanute in May 1964 as a ground instructional airframe. Redesignated GRB-58A in May 1965. Put on display at the base in 1967. After the Chanute Air Museum closed in 2015, this a/c was moved in August 2017 to the Castle Air Museum in California.