Photographer E. de Kruyff

1956: TOS USAF and assigned to the 19th Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, RAF Sculthorpe, England. Unknown date: Converted to JRB-66B and modified to test radar and control systems of the Boeing BOMARC missile. By 1965: Chanute Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB, IL, for use as an instructional airframe. 1993: Chanute AFB closed, aircraft transferred to the new Chanute Air Museum. 10/31/15: Chanute Museum closed. 2017: Scrapped.

Slide was taken when Chanute AFB was still active. The a/c was being used as a ground instructional airframe, and became part of the Chanute Air Museum collection after the base closed. The museum made some changes to the original markings. The museum closed in 2015 and the JRB-66 was one of several airframes that did not find a new home and was scrapped.

This Destroyer was built in 1956 as a RB-66B and upon delivery went to the 19th Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron. It was converted to a JRB-66B and modified to test the radar and control system of the Boeing-MARC BOMARC missile. By 1965 it had been transferred to the Chanute Technical Training Center (Air Training Command) at Chanute AFB before eventually joining the museum there in 1993. Unfortunately, the closing of the museum in October 2015 has resulted in the frame being scrapped.

Built as RB-66B recce aircraft. The 'J' prefix to its designation indicates a later use for test work on missile development before retirement to Davis Monthan and latter its display at the Rantoul Museum.