Youngest Boeing B-52 Stratofortress achieves 50 years of service

1962. Boeing photograph B-52 Stratofortress aircraft 61-040 is sits outside the Boeing assembly line in Wichita, Kansas, in 1962.

Boeing Oct. 26 marks 50 years since the company delivered its last B-52 Stratofortress to the U.S. Air Force. H-model bomber 61-040 was assigned to Minot Air Force Base, N.D., where it remains in active service.

Boeing built 744 B-52s, in eight different models, from 1952 to 1962. The Air Force fleet today comprises 76 H-models – two test aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and 74 operational aircraft that are assigned to Minot and to Barksdale Air Force Base, La. All the H-models were built in Wichita, Kansas.

The Boeing B-52 has been the backbone of the United States’ manned strategic bomber force for nearly 60 years. Modern engineering analyses show the B-52′s expected life span extending beyond 2040.

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First Boeing P-8I maritime patrol aircraft arrives in India

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Lockheed Martin’s second generation Aegis BMDS successfully intercepts ballistic missile target

F-35A successfully completes high angle of attack testing

Aerojet Rocket Motors contribute to third Standard Missile-3 Block IB intercept

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