After spending six decades on display at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, the second prototype Boeing XB-47A Stratojet, serial 46-066, arrived at the US Air Force Flight Test Museum (AFFTM) at Edwards Air Force Base, California aboard several flatbed trucks on the morning of 19 September, the move being made courtesy of Bellevue, Nebraska-based Worldwide Aircraft Recovery. Delivered to the USAF in December 1948, 46-066 was operated as an experimental test airframe from Edwards until 1954, logging a total of 337 flying hours before being delivered to Illinois, where it was on show at the Octave Chanute Air Museum until its closure on 30 December 2015. The move was made possible thanks to a generous grant from Boeing. George Welsh, the AFFTM director, says: "The assembly and external restoration of the XB-47A should take about a year."
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