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The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" [N 1] is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built, although it was exceeded in span and weight by the one-off Hughes H-4 Hercules.
Production version of the YB-36C, variant cancelled and the 34 on order were completed as B-36Bs. B-36D As the B-36B but with four 5200 lbst J-47 engines in paired underwing pods, 22 built. RB-36D Strategic reconnaissance variant of the B-36D with two of the four bomb-bays housing camera installations, 17 built. RB-36E The YB-36A and 21 B-36As ...
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Arrival of the first XB-36 at Carswell AFB [note 1] in June 1948 along with a 7th Bomb Wing B-29. 7th Bombardment Wing Consolidated B-36D-1-CF Peacemaker, AF Ser. No. 44-92097, showing Triangle-J tail code, September 1950 Consolidated B-36B-1-CF Peacemaker, AF Ser. No. 44-92033, in flight XB-52 prototype bomber at Carswell AFB, 1955 shown with ...
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Convair B-36D Peacemaker, 1949–1950; RB-36D (24), June 1950 – 1957 (Seven B-36Bs were converted to RB-36D); 10 later converted to GRB-36D (FICON). Several RB-36D aircraft temporarily assigned to 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron for duty during Korean War. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, 1957–1966, 1966–1968, 1968–1969, 1970–1986
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The museum was originally created to preserve and display the last Convair B-36 built. Of 386 B-36s built from 1945 to 1954, only four intact examples survive. B-36-J-III 52-2827 City of Fort Worth was built in Fort Worth, Texas in 1954. The aircraft was accepted by the Air Force on August 14, 1954 and was retired on 12, February 1959.