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    Airframe Family: Bell X-2
    Latest Model:X-2
    Last Military Serial:46-0674 USAF
    Compressed ID:Bell X-2 sn 46-0674 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station, Edwards AFB, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a XS-2.

    Circa 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 46-0674.

    Transferred to NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station, Edwards AFB, CA.

    1948

    Redesignated as X-2.

    27 June 1952

    The first unpowered glide flight of an X-2 took place at Edwards AFB.

    18 November 1955

    The first powered flight.

    1955


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    27 September 1956

    Crashed.
    Lost after completing the first ever Mach 3 flight when Captain Milburn Apt lost control and crashed 20 mi E of Edwards AFB. Captain Apt perished.
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