Del/02/03/1945 as USAAF 44-76486 but transferred to US Navy as BuNo 39103. US Army as 39103, Army Aviation Detachment as 0-39103. Preserved at USAF Armament Museum, Valparaiso Eglin Air Force Base, FL with fake serial.

Del 24 Mar 1977 96 ABW/MU Preserved at USAF Armament Museum,Valparaiso Eglin Air Force Base, FL.

Del 16 Aug 1965 96 ABW/MU Called Big Tail due the nine-foot rear fuselage extension used for housing extra test equipment.

Photographer: Denis Hughes

Del 18 Feb 1953 96 ABW/MU Preserved at USAF Armament Museum, Valparaiso Eglin Air Force Base, FL.

Photographer: L. Bill Sides.

Built in 1960. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB with park code FN059 in 1984. Left in 1993. Converted to QF-106A drone AD250. Withdrawn from use in 1998 due to a cracked wing spar. Preserved at Camp Blanding Museum, FL from 2001.

Photographer: Thomas Brewer

Photographer: Thomas Brewer

Photographer: Jack Morris

One of three B-36s converted as director aircraft for the Bell GAM-63 Rascal air-to-surface missile. In 1955 replaced by DB-47 Stratojets which took the missile into operational service. Rascal program terminated in 1958 in favour of the AGM-28 Hound Dog. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

The aircraft appears to be part-way through a repaint, with only the false serial 02344 applied. No national markings yet.

Ca.3/45: TOS USAAF as B-25J. Ca.1946: Redesignated TB-25J. Ca.1954: Converted to TB-25N. By 5/60: Turner AFB, GA. Last B-25 in the Air Force inventory. 21 May 1960: Last flight; Turner AFB to Eglin AFB, FL; a ceremony held presenting the plane to Valparaiso, FL. Present was the Commander of SAC's 822nd Air Division, Commander of Eglin AFB Air Proving Ground Center and four Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Placed on display at Doolittle Memorial Park in Niceville, FL, still marked in its bare metal USAF scheme. 1974: Donated to Air Force Armament Museum. Repainted and marked as Doolittle's aircraft.

This was the second HH-53B built. It was later converted into a MH-53J and was retired on 21 May 2007, almost 40 years after I took this slide.

Later converted to a CH-3E, and retired in February 1990. Acquired by Carson Helicopters, Inc. with FAA reg. N51014 which expired in January 2018.