This US-built Canberra was delivered to the USAF in Oct 1956 as a B-57E, then converted to EB-57E in Sep 1964. It was withdrawn from service and stored at MASDC 25 Jul 1979 with inventory code BM127. Retrieved from storage 11 Feb 1991 and trucked to the Castle Air Museum for restoration and display.

Photographer: Robert Mikesh

Photographer: Robert Mikesh

Photographer: David Menard

Photographer: Lindsay Peacock

Stored at AMARG since 1981.

The photo shows a shield on the forward fuselage ahead of the engine. The shield showed across the top the letters ARDC, underneath following the curve of the shield it was written Air Force Special Weapons Center. Aircraft was reconverted from NB-57B to combat configuration, it was lost after being hit by ground fire over Laos 22nd September 1968. The crew was rescued. Reference Joe Baugher's page.

Built for USAF as B-57B 52-1576. Later transferred to NASA and modified for research programmes including into gusting.

NASA 28 departing on a grey day - taken at some distance. This was deployed to Mildenhall on only a few occasions. [Close inspection only reveals 28 on the fuselage and some sources give the identity as NASA 928 or even 63-13298. The registration N928NA was issued about ten years after this image in June 2015.]

The photo was taken at RAAF East Sale in late 1961 or early 1962. It had a number of deployments in the early 1960s to RAAF East Sale with other B-57Bs as part of the USAF Crowflight deployments. Early 1962 it was back at East Sale in the same role of medium-level air sampling the filters were located in the special wingtip pods. Later in 1962, the USAF moved the Crowflight deployments to RAAF Laverton with Laverton hosting U-2s. The B-57Bs were stationed at the Avalon airfield. This aircraft sadly crashed after take-off from Laverton with the loss of both the crew on the 1962-09-17.

The photo was taken at RAAF East Sale in late 1961 or early 1962. It had a number of deployments in the early 1960s to RAAF Base East Sale with other B-57Bs as part of the USAF Crowflight deployments. The aircraft had the designation NB-57B painted, on the forward left fuselage just forward of the cockpit. Early 1962 it was back at East Sale in the same role of medium-level air sampling the filters were located in the special wingtip pods. Joe Baugher's page indicates this aircraft was written 14th January 1980.

The photo was taken at RAAF East Sale in late 1961 or early 1962. It had a number of deployments in the early 1960s to RAAF East Sale with other B-57Bs as part of the USAF Crowflight deployments. Early 1962 it was back at East Sale in the same role of medium-level air sampling the filters were located in the special wingtip pods. Later in 1962, the USAF moved the Crowflight deployments to RAAF Laverton with Laverton hosting U-2s. The B-57Bs were stationed at the Avalon airfield. This aircraft sadly crashed after take-off from Laverton with the loss of both the crew on the 1962-09-17. Fuselage data show the B-57Bs having the designation NB-57B, for special weapons trials.

'B-57F press review'. The RB-57F weather reconnaissance aircraft was a Martin B-57 Canberra rebuilt by General Dynamics here at Fort Worth. A completely new long-span wing was fitted. 63-1574 was formerly 52-1574, a B-52B. 9th Weather Reconnaissance Wing markings are probably worn. Photo from: Lockheed Martin