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.

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.

This Hustler was built by Consolidated at Fort Worth in February 1962 and delivered to the 305th Bombardment Wing, Bunker Hill (later Grissom) where it was given the famous moniker 'Greased Lightning'. It set numerous records including flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 h 35 min 20.4 sec at an average of 938 mph. It was SOC in 1969 and is now on display at the super Strategic Air and Space Museum at Ashland.