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 Post subject: YB-40
PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:41 pm 
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YB-40 42-5927, notice the Orange P-63's high and to the right.

5927 (MSN 17-6223) http://joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1942_1.html
Accepted by USAAF at Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA May43. Long Beach Field, CA 14May43.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK.
Modified by Douglas as a YB-40 [Vega Project V-140] 21May43.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 11Jun44.
610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 11Jul44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 12Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 19Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped

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 Post subject: Re: YB-40
PostPosted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:44 am 
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My father did some of his pilot training in YB-40s, showing some were put to use after their service test period.

If anyone is really interested, I can probably come up with dates and unit, but not serials.

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