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    Airframe Family: Boeing B345 / B-29/B-50/P2B/F-13 Superfrotress / Tu-4
    Latest Model:TB-29A Superfortress
    Last Military Serial:44-61748 USAAF
    Construction Number:11225
    Last Civil Registration:G-BHDK
    Compressed ID:Boeing TB-29A sn 44-61748 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-29A.

    Circa 26 May 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-61748.

    May 1945

    Transferred to 421st Army Air Force Base Unit, Muroc AAF, CA.

    November 1945

    Assigned to 3040th Aircraft Storage Depot, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.

    November 1951

    Transferred to 371st Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Wing, Kadena AB, Okinawa.
    Operated with markings: Its Hawg Wild
    Flew 105 missions over Korea.

    17 October 1954

    Damaged.
    Accident due to weather.

    October 1954

    Assigned to 3040th Aircraft Storage Depot, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.

    Converted to a TB-29A.

    July 1955

    Transferred to 4750th Air Defense Wing, Yuma County AFB, AZ.
    Used as a target tug, towing targets for gunnery practice.

    November 1956

    Transferred to Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, CA.
    Used as a ground target for weapons testing.

    By 1959

    Assigned to NAWS China Lake, CA for storage.

    3 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 44-61748 Its Hawg Wild - B-29A Superfortress - ex-US Air Force - China Lake / Naval Weapons Center - This aircraft flew 105 over missions over Korea while assigned to the 307BW at Kadena between 1952 and 1956 when it was flown to China Lake for use as a range target. In 1979 the US Navy donated the aircraft to the Imperial War Museum and it returned to airworthy condition to enable it to be restored by Aero Services at Tucson. In March 1980, it was flown to Flint, Michigan, where it was prepared for the flight to the UK. This took in stops at Loring, Maine; Gander, Newfoundland; Sondestrom Fjord, Greenland; Keflavik, Iceland; and Mildenhall, UK.

    27 September 1979

    To Imperial War Museum, London, U. K with new c/r G-BHDK (BOEING B-29A, 44-61748).

    From September 1979 to February 1980

    Restored.
    Restored at Aero Services at Tucson.

    March 1980

    Ferry flight.
    Arrived Duxford, England after restoration.

    Based at Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Circa April 1983


    Photographer: Larry Johnson

    Circa April 1983


    Photographer: Larry Johnson

    27 February 1984

    Civil registration, G-BHDK, cancelled.
    De-registered as permenantly withdrawn from use.

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Duxford Museum in UK
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