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Old 26th Sep 2015, 20:45
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Good Vibs
 
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Greater Southwest Int Airport B-36

It was destroyed when DFW was built. However one on the runways is still being used as the main highway leading into DFW from the south.

I took photos of it in 1968 and I had always thought that the GSW B-36 had been saved.

Here is the Wikipedia entry on it....
AF Ser. No. 52-2827 – Pima Air & Space Museum, adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. This aircraft was the final B-36 built, named "The City of Fort Worth", and loaned to the city of Fort Worth, Texas on 12 February 1959. It sat on the field at the Greater Southwest International Airport until that airfield was closed and the property was redeveloped as a business park adjacent to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Some attempts were made to begin restoration at that location through the early 1970s. It then moved to the short-lived Southwest Aero Museum, which was located between the former Carswell Air Force Base (now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth) and the former General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) assembly plant, where it was originally built; some restoration took place while at the plant. As Lockheed Martin had no place to display the finished aircraft, and local community efforts in Fort Worth to build a facility to house and maintain the massive aircraft fell short, the NMUSAF retook possession of the aircraft and it was transported to Tucson, Arizona for loan to the Pima Air & Space Museum. It was fully restored and reassembled at that museum, just south of Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, and is displayed at that location.[63]
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