• Aircraft:

  Martin B-57E Canberra

• Reg: 55-4274 photos
• Serial #:

  376

• Airline: United States - US Air Force (USAF)
• Photo Date: Mar 15, 2005
• Uploaded: Feb 04, 2009
• Other Location - Tucson Pima Air and Space Museum, USA - Arizona

The B-57 is one of only two major combat aircraft of foreign design adopted for use by the United States military since the end of World War II. The first British built Canberra arrived in the United States in 1951 and U.S. built aircraft began flying two years later. The B-57E version of the plane was the first aircraft in the U.S. inventory specifically built for towing aerial targets. All combat equipment was replaced with the cables and reels needed to tow the large targets used in aerial gunnery practice. The B-57E could be converted to a bomber and a number of them were converted to replace combat loses in Vietnam. Two aircraft were also converted to act as airborne relays for real-time video reconnaissance over Vietnam. While the system, code named, "Compass Site" was successful it was never deployed to Vietnam

Photographer

Aircraft

The B-57 is one of only two major combat aircraft of foreign design adopted for use by the United States military since the end of World War II

Nicolás Quintero Duque 55-4274

435 2 0 Martin B-57E Canberra

JK zhong 55-4274

815 0 0 Martin B-57E Canberra

Steve Smith 55-4274

722 0 0 Martin B-57E Canberra

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Nick Sheeder WL790

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Nick Sheeder 57-0493

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Javier Rodriguez 49-0372

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Awaiting service at the Pilatus service centre

Andrew Stevens LX-JFU

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Andrew Stevens G-CIFW

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Awaiting the scrapman's axe in corrosion corner at Bournemouth Hurn EGHH

Andrew Stevens SX-VIP

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