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After sitting at bombing range at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake for 42 years, Doc was recovered in 1998 by a team led by Tony Mazzolini. [1] The group Doc's Friends was started in 2013 to support the effort and, following 3 years of work, the airplane flew again in 2016.
The B-29 was built in 1944 as part of a production run of 1620 aircraft built by Boeing at Wichita, Kansas, and allocated the military Serial Number 44-69972. [2] It was delivered to the United States Army Air Forces in March 1945.
At last year’s Wichita Warbird Weekend, Wells said B-29 Doc had a full house of people. This year, B-29 Doc has added more aircraft to fly in and get up close to. This year, B-29 Doc has added ...
Jul. 13—The B-29 Doc History Restored Tour returns to Terre Haute for a three-day stop, two-day tour. One of only two B-29 Superfortresses still airworthy and flying, "Doc" was slated to arrive ...
Wichita, Kansas: Doc's Friends: Airworthy [14] Built at Boeing Wichita as B-29. In 1951 converted to a radar calibration plane and was based at Griffiss Air Force Base with the 4713th Radar Evaluation Squadron. Squadron named planes after characters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and this plane acquired the name "Doc." B-29 number 44 ...
The B-29 that became Dauntless Dotty is a block 40 airframe, manufactured by Boeing at the Wichita, Kansas plant which was built specifically for Superfortress production, and was the twenty-second of a hundred block 40-BWs constructed. It was assigned Army Air Forces serial number 42-24592, and Boeing-Wichita constructors number (c/n) 4253. [4]
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"Exploded" B-29 off Wichita production line showing the main sub-assemblies. The Battle of Kansas (also known as the "Battle of Wichita" [1]) was the nickname for a project to build, modify, and deliver large quantities of the world's most advanced bomber to the front-lines in Europe, and then to the Pacific, although because of delays in production, it was used only in the Pacific.