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B-58 Hustler/55-0666
Convair B-58 Hustler
Serial #: 55-0666
Construction #: 7
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  B-58A Hustler
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2021
History:
First flight: March 20, 1958.
Used as a test aircraft by Convair, with a YJ79-GE-5 jet engine on a special centerline pod, 1958.
  • Flew 32 minutes at sustained Mach 2 with YJ79-GE-5 engines, November 8, 1958.
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 55-0666.
  • Brought on charge: April 28, 1959.
  • Retained by Convair for use as a test and evaluation aircraft
  • Converted to YRB-58A, May 1, 1959.
  • Made the longest B-58 early test program flight of 11 hours 15 minutes, August 16, 1962.
  • Transferred to the 6510th Operational Maintenance Squadron (Air Force Systems Command) at Edwards AFB, CA, November 1962.
  • Transferred to the 3345th Maintenance and Support Group (Air Training Command) at Chanute AFB, IL, May 1964.
  • Redesignated GRB-58A for use as an instructional airframe, May 1965.
  • Transferred to museum status and displayed at the Chanute AFB base air park, 1967
    • Displayed as 61-2059.
    • Later displayed as 55-0666
  • Tranferred to the Chanute Air Museum, 1993.
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL, 1993-2015.
  • Damaged by museum staff while they were attempting to move the plane while the wheels on the main gear were locked up and the nose gear was irreparably fractured.
Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA, 2020-2021.
  • Under restoration.
Photo Source(s):
None.

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