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On 24 June, B-52H (tail number 61-0026, call sign "Czar 52") with the 319th Bombardment Wing out of Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota crashed at Fairchild AFB, Washington, during practice for an airshow. While the aircraft was executing a "go-around", three-quarters of the way through the turn, the aircraft banked past 90 degrees, stalled, clipped ...
1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 crash: Maine, United States B-52 Stratofortress: Unknowingly exceeded design capability 7 Loss of vertical stabilizer 1963-01-30 1963 B-52 crash in New Mexico New Mexico, United States B-52 Stratofortress: Unknowingly exceeded design capability 2 Near Mora: [7] loss of vertical stabilizer [8] 1964-01-04 1964 B-57 crash
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The two B-52 tail gunner kills were not confirmed by VPAF, and they admitted to the loss of only three MiGs, all by F-4s. [182] Vietnamese sources have attributed a third air-to-air victory to a B-52, a MiG-21 shot down on 16 April 1972. [183] These victories make the B-52 the largest aircraft credited with air-to-air kills.
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On the very first Operation Arc Light mission flown by Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft of SAC to hit a target in South Vietnam, a total of 30 B-52Fs depart Andersen AFB, Guam just after midnight, flying in ten cells of three aircraft, to hit a suspected Viet Cong stronghold in the Bến Cát District, 40 miles N of Saigon.
The U.S. Air Force recently announced that the last squadrons of the legendary B-52's have returned home after concluding operations against ISIS.
Douglas MC-54M Skymaster, 44-9068A, c/n 27294/DO240, tail number O-49068, built as a C-54E-5-DO and later converted to an MC-54M, attached to the 57th Air Transport Squadron, 1700th Air Transport Group, of the Military Air Transport Service, at Kelly AFB, Texas, piloted by 1st Lt. George Manuel Pappas Jr., 27, and co-piloted by 2d Lt. Paul E ...