ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 153807
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| Date: | Thursday 23 October 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing RB-50F Superfortress |
| Owner/operator: | 338th SRSqn /55th SRWg USAF |
| Registration: | 47-158 |
| MSN: | 15842 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Enewetak Atoll -
 Marshall Islands
|
| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Eniwetok Airfield, Marshall Islands |
| Eniwetok Airfield, Marshall Islands | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
This aircraft was orginally built as B-50B-60-BO, but later converted to a RB-50F with navigational radar.
The RB-50F (pilot Thomas P. Hammond) was destroyed by fire while taxiing to its parking position on Eniwetok Airfield. All crew members escaped the burning aircraft, but all film material of aerial-mosaic photography taken of the nuclear weapons test site in preparation of Operation Ivy were lost.
Sources:
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/usafserials.html
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp
http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=AD0363629
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Mar-2013 09:42 | Tetrapack | Added |
| 21-May-2021 09:37 | Yelush | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 06-Jun-2022 07:39 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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