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    Airframe Family: Convair B-58 Hustler
    Latest Model:B-58A-20-CF Hustler
    Last Military Serial:61-2059 USAF
    Construction Number:95
    Compressed ID:Consolidated B-58A-20-CF sn 61-2059...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa January 1962

    Constructed as a B-58A-20-CF by Consolidated at Fort Worth, TX, USA.

    16 February 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-2059.

    1962

    Transferred to 305th Bombardment Wing, Bunker Hill (later Grissom) AFB, IN.
    Operated with markings: GREASED LIGHTNING

    Set numerous speed records during career.

    16 October 1963

    Set last five speed records flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hrs, 35 min, 20.4 sec, averaging 938 mph. Speed record from Tokyo to Anchorage averaged 1,093 mph.

    1969

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.
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    1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    1971

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.

    22 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Offutt AFB

    1997

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Moved to new facility while under construction.

    16 May 1998

    Placed on display with Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    New museum opened.

    17 May 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    2001

    Loaned to Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Markings changed to: Museum name changed
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    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    22 June 2015

    To Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Strategic Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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