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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:RB-57F
    Last Military Serial:63-13295 USAF
    Construction Number:M.266
    Last Civil Registration:N927NA
    Compressed ID:Martin RB-57F sn 63-13295 USAF cn M...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-57B-MA by Martin at Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-3918.

    October 1964

    Remanufactured as a RB-57F by Martin.

    Circa October 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 63-13295.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number BM074.

    To Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At AMARC Davis Monthan bus tour, Tucson AZ.

    25 June 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: This WB-57F Canberra, seen in 2002, has since escaped AMARC and now flies again as N927NA with NASA. It started life as a plain old B-57B, 53-3918.

    5 August 2011


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
    Notes: Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F-CF was B-57B 53-3918. To AMARC as BM0074 Jul 26, 1972, Still at AMARC Jan 15, 2008. Pulled from storage in May 2011 and to NASA In July 2013 as WB-57F N927NA

    31 July 2013

    To National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX with new c/r N927NA.

    July 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At 2014 EAA Airventure at Oshkosh, Wisconsin

    September 2018


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: WB-57F Canberra High Altitude Research Aircraft (NASA) on approach to Ellington Field, Houston, Tx. Sept. 2018.
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    MASDC III, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona by Bonny, Swann and Fryer
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