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    Airframe Family: Rockwell B-1 Lancer
    Latest Model:B-1A
    Last Military Serial:76-0174 USAF
    Construction Number:004
    Compressed ID:Rockwell B-1A sn 76-0174 USAF cn 00...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    1978

    Constructed as a B-1A.
    Last B-1A built, equipped with ejection seats vs crew escape module.

    February 1979

    First flight.

    1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 76-0174.

    Used primarily as avionics test bed for B-1B program.

    10 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Farnborough Air Show

    10 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    10 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    16 December 1986

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    11 June 1990


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the National Museum of the USAF

    By March 1991

    Repainted to flight test program scheme.

    30 March 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the National Museum of the USAF

    20 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    2003

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    22 October 2003

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.
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    Restored to camouflage paint scheme.

    25 February 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Strategic Air and Space Museum

    22 June 2015

    To Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum renamed.
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    9 August 2017


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    9 August 2017


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    9 August 2017


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Strategic Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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