• Aircraft:

  Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

• Reg: 60-0034 photos
• Serial #:

  464399

• Airline: United States - US Air Force (USAF)
• Photo Date: May 19, 2019
• Uploaded: Jan 24, 2022
• Bossier City Barksdale Air Force Base - KBAD, USA - Louisiana

Think this 60 year old B-52 looks like its been through a bit? You would be correct. This Stratofortress, nicknamed "Wise Guy," is only the second B-52 to be returned to service from the vast military boneyard (or AMARG) in Tuscon, Arizona where she had been parked since 2008. She was pulled from storage and many long hours were spent making her airworthy again. Once it was cleared to return to the skies, it was ferried gear down to Barksdale AFB, around a week before this photo was taken. Regenerating bombers from the boneyard is a rare occasion and this BUFF was needed to replace another B-52 that was destroyed in a takeoff mishap at Andersen AFB in 2016. Quite the feat and a testament to the men and women tasked to restore this iconic machine!

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Aircraft

Eduardo k Purba 60-0034

769 4 0 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

First B-52 ever landed in Indonesia

Wilbert Tana 60-0034

980 12 0 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

Joseph CC 60-0034

1,332 7 0 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

Photo location

Smoke and noise, the trademark of the B-52! “SKULL 52” climbing out of Barksdale

Garrett Heller 60-0058

2,010 7 0 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

Buff with one of the mains locked down doing some pattern work

Garrett Heller 61-0012

2,019 13 0 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

Mighty BUFF on final

Garrett Heller 61-0031

1,540 11 0 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

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Dylan Phelps C-FDFK

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End of the road for Triple Crown One? This airframe formerly wore the special livery and left the Spokane paint shop yesterday with the standard Heart livery applied

Dylan Phelps N409WN

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