B-29 Parts/Fuselage At The PIMA Museum?

[APG85]

Can anyone verify if the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson has a B-29 Fuselage in storage (not the B-29 on display) over by their restoration hangar? If so, what is the tail number and are there any pictures out there? This has been a rumor for awhile. Possibly one of the Disney planes taken from China Lake. Thanks...

[Matt Gunsch]

I did not see it lat time I was there. I am sure Jamesintucson will chime in on this.

[jamesintucson]

Can anyone verify if the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson has a B-29 Fuselage in storage (not the B-29 on display) over by their restoration hangar? If so, what is the tail number and are there any pictures out there? This has been a rumor for awhile. Possibly one of the Disney planes taken from China Lake. Thanks...

The extra B-29 fuselages we had have been gone for at least 15 years. They had been used by Disney for the movie "Noah's Ark" and were in pretty bad shape. I don't have the tail numbers handy right now. I seem to recall there was a thread on this some time ago. A search might turn it up.

James

[APG85]

Where did the fuselages go?

[Jerry O'Neill]

I believe they are stored with Aero Trader in Borrego Springs, CA.
Jerry

[jamesintucson]

Where did the fuselages go?

According to our records the nose went to the Museum of Flight and the fuselages went to DRMO (aka government surplus) for scrap. What happened to them after that, I have no idea. By the way I found the serial numbers too.

44-62112
44-62222

James

[APG85]

Where did the fuselages go?

According to our records the nose went to the Museum of Flight and the fuselages went to DRMO (aka government surplus) for scrap. What happened to them after that, I have no idea. By the way I found the serial numbers too.

44-62112
44-62222

James

SCRAP!?!

[Jerry O'Neill]

Found this on Wikipedia. Don't know the date of this info.

B-29A-70BN 44-62222, (fwd fuselage only) Pima County Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona (S), (Rear fuselage Disney Studios, Orando, Florida (S)

Anybody been to Disney in Florida lately?
Jerry

[jamesintucson]

Found this on Wikipedia. Don't know the date of this info.

B-29A-70BN 44-62222, (fwd fuselage only) Pima County Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona (S), (Rear fuselage Disney Studios, Orando, Florida (S)

Anybody been to Disney in Florida lately?
Jerry

All the B-29 bits seem to have left here in 1983 or 84. I've tracked down some very small photos of the pieces we had. It looks like there were two nose sections one of which had been heavily cut up by the movie studio, and the chopped up parts of the rest of one fuselage. No tail, no wings, no gear, no engines, stripped interiors, and that is about it.

James

[Django]

Hmm. Maybe I will watch The Last Flight of Noah's Ark tonight!