Last B-32

wolf · **Joined:** Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:18 pm **Posts:** 154

Those interested knowing that the last B-32's were destroyed in 1955 (XB-32) and 1957 as fire fighting training ships

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Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:51 am

old iron · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:38 am

Those dates are of course after the USAF Museum was re-opened to the public (1954). Larger aircraft were then stored outdoors, but none reached the museum grounds.

wolf · **Joined:** Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:18 pm **Posts:** 154

old iron wrote:

Those dates are of course after the USAF Museum was re-opened to the public (1954). Larger aircraft were then stored outdoors, but none reached the museum grounds.

It is believed, because of the cocooning, that the 1957 B-32 was the ex-USAF museum ship that had been stored.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:57 pm

Dates may be off here; K-510 (42-108489) was a maintenance trainer at Keesler and was burned in a firefighting demonstration at an Armed Forces Day airshow circa the late '40s. Note the nose fairing; it probably never had a turret:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=55492&p=550112&hilit=dominator#p550112

Per this thread, the one destined for the museum was 42-108474 which was scrapped at Davis Monthan in 1949. The XB-32 at McClellan was probably burned in '51 or '52, making it the last survivor:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=53756

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