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Liberator/44-51228



     

Serial #: 44-51228
Construction #:
  6083
Civilian Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  B-24M
  EZB-24M
Name: Dugan
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2002
  History:
Delivered to USAF as 44-51228, 19??.
- Loaned to Aeronautical Icing Research Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN Mar. 1, 1946-195r.
- Retired, stored Lackland AFB, TX, June 1954-1956.
USAFM, Lackland, TX, 1956-1999.
- Displayed as "The Blasted Event"/39/RE-Z.
- Doanted to Imperial War Museum, replaced by full scale fiberglass replica.
Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK, 1999-2001.
- Dismantled and airfreighted to Mildenhall AFB by USAF C-5A, June 28, 1999.
- Restored for display.
IWM/American Air Museum, Duxford, UK, 2002.
- Displayed as "Dugan".

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Pat Carry.
Photo Source(s):
Tony Chambers Photography
Nigel Roling - Pentavia Digital Imaging, http://website.lineone.net/~roling46/, 2002
Steve Tournay.