New in Little Rock

[adflyer]

Awful picture taken through my broke A$$ windshield.

[The Inspector]

Still a great sight to see! where did it come from? MAASDC or another location/park? Any idea of it's s/n?

[shrike]

The missing pod strikes you even before you notice the missing wings.
Kinda spindly lookin ain't it?

[Speedy]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM................pure sex, right there.

One of them puppies in the air with a Starfighter or two and wooof!!! Off the charts!

[P51Mstg]

Being there is a limited number of B-58s, which one would this be? (can't think of any that might get moved except Grissim (which looks like this one) or maybe Lone Star (which looks nicer than this even after the flood).....

Mark H

[warbird2]

Most likely the one from the museum at Chanute AFB in Illinois.

[Kyleb]

What happened to the one at Carswell 20 years ago?

While I'm asking Carswell questions, what happened to the F-89 that was there?

[mustangdriver]

The Chanute one is all painted sort of a primer gray, so not this one I don't think.

HAHA I would swear it was the Grissom one. Hey I better go out and check.

[Chuck Gardner]

LSFM

[adflyer]

This was posted on the base Facebook back in November:

Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
The B-58 Hustler may have been phased out on Oct. 29, 1969, but Little Rock AFB will be receiving a static display B-58 for our Heritage Park. Tail 55-668 will arrive in here in the next few months. She had many names during her time in service but the longest standing was Wild Child II. As far as we know, this was the last B-58 to leave Little Rock AFB.

[mustangdriver]

I wonder why the move?

[warbird2]

So it is the one from Galveston. I guess that means they are not taking it to Houston for the museum. It is probably in bad shape after the hurricane. I think those planes have a lot of magnesium. I think this one used to be in the Dallas area.

[JohnB]

While I'm asking Carswell questions, what happened to the F-89 that was there?

Moved to a different museum. I had it on wiki...but some "know it all" deleted the former location notes in the surviving aircraft section.

[K5DH]

Darn! There was some talk going around a few weeks ago about the Hustler possibly coming back "home" to Fort Worth after it left Galveston. Guess that ain't happenin'. . .

Good news for Little Rock, though. With LRAFB's Hustler history, that's as good a place as any!

[Clifford Bossie]

What happened to the one at Carswell 20 years ago?

While I'm asking Carswell questions, what happened to the F-89 that was there?

To answer your second question first: The F-89D (52-1868) that was at Carswell is now in Hawthorne, CA at the Western Museum of Flight.

The TB-58 is well travelled.

It sat in a scrap yard on S Wilmot rd just outside D-M for years. That is where I first saw it in 1978:



It then went back into the boneyard sometime in 1979; Was readied for movement to Carswell in 1980:



Sat there for several years:



Sometime in the 1990's it went to Lone Star:



I am not sure how I feel about the move to Little Rock. At Galveston I thought it woul;d be "safe" inside of a hangar. Boy was I wrong there! Now it might be taken care of, but probably will be unaccessable to the average airplane nut.