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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.
It’s all a part of Wichita Warbird Weekend, which will take place July 6-10 at the B-29 Doc Hangar, Education and Visitor’s Center, 1788 S. Airport Road at Eisenhower National Airport.
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 ...
Wichita Warbird Weekend, 1788 S. Airport Road, July 6-10. B-29 Doc Hangar, Education & Visitors Center, 1788 S. Airport Road. At B-29 Doc’s five-day event, there will be nine vintage and ...
Museums in Wichita, Kansas ... Kansas" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... B. B-29 Doc Hangar, Education and Visitors Center; S.
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]