B-29 (Three Feathers) 44-61669

B-29 (Three Feathers) 44-61669
Serial #	44-61669 c/n 11146
Model	B-29A-40-BN Boeing-Renton
Current Location	March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside
Status:	Static

• July 1951 assigned to the 7th Radar Calibration Squadron
• The aircraft was in a squadron who wore nose art depicting Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs.

(previously carried the name THE MISSION INN)

• Delivered to the USAAF on May 5, 1945.
• Flew out of Isley Field, Saipan with the 883rd Bombardment Squadron of the 500th Bombardment Group.
• Carried the nose art "Flagship 500" in the ball & spear insignia of the 73rd Bombardment Wing, also carried the nose art “Three Feathers” after the pilot Captain Feather’s daughters or possibly a brand of whisky popular during the war years, and tail code "Z-49."
• Flew 11 combat missions before the surrender of Japan.
• Served with 581st Air resupply Group at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.
• Sent to NAWS China Lake, California on 18 March 1956 for use as a test target.
• Recovered from NAWS China Lake by David Tallichet & Yesterday's Air Force in 1975, and flown from China Lake to Dagget Field, Barstow.
• Flown to March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, California in January 1981 for display.  On display outdoors with no gun turrets installed.
• On loan from National Museum of the United States Air Force
• Sister ship to Doc

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