List of surviving Boeing B-47 Stratojets includes flying and static display Boeing B-47s in the United States. A list is also provided of other B-47s on display around the world; including location, model and serial numbers, brief history, nicknames/markings, and conditions.
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The Boeing B-47 Stratojet jet bomber was a medium range and size bomber capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily designed for penetrating the Soviet Union. A major innovation in post-World War II combat jet design, it helped lead to the development of modern jet airliners. While it never saw major combat use, it was the mainstay of U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command strategic striking power in the 1950s.
By the time it was retired by the United States Air Force in the 1960s, 2042 planes had been built. The United States Navy continued to use the EB-47E until the late 1970s. Currently 31 confirmed B-47s of various marks are preserved in museums and outdoor displays.
| USAF Designation | Serial or registration number |
History | Markings | Location | Condition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XB-47-BO | 46-0066 | Test aircraft assigned to former Chanute Air Force Technical Training Center | Chanute Air Museum, former Chanute AFB, Rantoul, Illinois. | Display | [1] |
| USAF Designation | Serial or registration number |
History | Markings | Location | Condition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-47B-20-BW | 50-0062 | 50-0062 at the Mighty 8th AF Museum Was operated by the Strategic Air Command's Training Wing |
0062 | Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum, Savannah, Georgia | Display | [2] |
| B-47B-25-BW | 51-2075 | 51-2075 at Edwards AFB bombing range in 2008 |
Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California | Used as a photographic target | ||
| B-47B-30-BW | 51-2120 | Operated by SAC's 509 BW | 2120 | Whiteman AFB, Knob Noster, Missouri |
Display | |
| B-47B-30-BW | 51-2135 | 51-2135 at Pima |
Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona |
Display | ||
| B-47B-50-BW | 51-2315 | Grissom Air Museum, Grissom Air Reserve Base (formerly Grissom AFB, Peru, Indiana |
Display | [3] |
| USAF Designation | Serial or registration number |
History | Markings | Location | Condition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WB-47E-55-BW | 51-2360 | Converted B-47E | Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, Utah | Display | ||
| WB-47E-55-BW | 51-2387 | Converted B-47E | Kansas Aviation Museum, Wichita, Kansas | Display | [4] | |
| B-47E-75-BW | 51-7066 | Was converted to a WB-47E but restored to bomber configuration for display | 17066 | Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington | Display | |
| B-47E-75-BW | 51-7071 | ex-SAC 96 BW | "The City of Altus"[5] | Altus, Oklahoma | Display | |
| EB-47E-80-BW | 52-0412 | Converted from B-47E was later operated by the US Navy (with serial 24100) until retired in 1977 | 24120 | Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Abilene, Texas | Display | [6] |
| B-47E-105-BW | 52-0595 | 0595 | Little Rock AFB, Little Rock, Arkansas. | Display | ||
| B-47E-110-BW | 53-2275 | 2275 Betty-Boop |
March Field Air Museum, March Air Reserve Base (formerly March AFB), Riverside, California | Display | [7] | |
| B-47E-110-BW | 53-2276 | Former 303rd Bomb Wing aircraft. | O-32276 | Eighth Air Force Museum, Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, Louisiana | Display | [8] |
| B-47E-111-BW | 53-2280 | In the 1960s this aircraft was used as a test bed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base under the designation JB-47E. It was the first USAF aircraft with a fly-by-wire control system. It was transferred to the Museum in 1969 and displayed until 2003. | 2280 | Wright Patterson AFB, National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio | Stored outside the Museum's Restoration Hangar. | |
| B-47E-125-BW | 53-2385 | 2385 Pride of the Adirondacks |
Plattsburgh International Airport (formerly Plattsburgh AFB), Plattsburgh, New York | Display | ||
| B-47E-130-BW | 53-4213 | Operated by Strategic Air Command's 98 BW & 308 BW, One of last B-47s operated at Lincoln AFB Nebraska before departing on 7 December 1965, 53-4213 participated in Operation "Fast Fly" which was the retirement of the last B-47s in service. | 4213 | McConnell AFB, Kansas | Display | |
| B-47E-135-BW | 53-4257 | 0-34257 | Tinker AFB Air Park, Oklahoma | Display | ||
| B-47E-25-DT | 52-0166 | Strategic Air Command operated by the 9 BW, 509 BW & 40 BW, last used by the United States Navy as a photographic training target and performed the types last flight in June 1986 from China Lake to Castle AFB. |
20166 Spirit |
Castle Air Museum (formerly Castle AFB) Atwater, California |
Display | [9] |
| B-47E-35-DT | 52-1412 | 1412 | Strategic Air and Space Museum, adjacent to Offutt AFB in Ashland, Nebraska | Display | [10] [11] | |
| B-47E-45-DT | 53-2104 N1045Y |
Last role was as a TF34 engine testbed designated a NB-47E; civil registered for delivery flight to Pueblo in 1979 |
Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum and Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society, Pueblo, Colorado | Display | [12] | |
| B-47E-55-DT | 53-2135 | Converted to a EB-47E a formerly operated by 376 BW | 2135 | Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona | Display | [13] |
| USAF Designation | Serial or registration number |
History | Markings | Location | Condition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RB-47H-1-BW | 53-4296 | Former 55th SRW aircraft; returned to duty from MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, for tests of F-111 radar system by the Air Force Avionics Laboratory, then retired to Eglin AFB, ca. 1976; RB-47 nose and F-111 radome replaced by standard B-47E nose, making it a bastardized configuration. | Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, Valparaiso, Florida | Display | [14] | |
| RB-47H-1-BW | 53-4299 | This RB-47H was delivered to the USAF in October 1955. The aircraft served with the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing from 1955 until its retirement in 1966. It was deployed to several locations, including Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, and Yokota Air Base, Japan. It also flew missions over the former Soviet Union. The aircraft was delivered to the museum in 1998. After extensive restoration by museum personnel, it went on display in 2003, marked as it appeared in 1960. | National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. | Display | [15] |
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