Last operated by the 134th Defense Systems Evaluations Squadron, Vermont ANG, Burlington, VT, this EB-57B was on display at the South Dakota Air & Space Museum.
This was a line of Martin B-57 Canberras, the nearest to camera (R/H side) was EB-57E 55-4278 pcn BM 120 last operated by the 17th DSES out of Malmstrom AFB. The squadron was inactivated in 1979 and this aircraft entered store July 1979.
Valentines Day 1987 and my first MASDC Photographer's Tour, walking along the 'Display Row'. This was the first time I had seen a Martin WB-57F Canberra and I could not believe what General-Dynamics had done to it! Recorded as stored with NASA as N927NA.
190th Bombardment Group (Tactical). B-57Bs modified as night intruders for use in Vietnam under a project known as Tropic Moon. With FLIR, LLTV and laser designator in the nose, capable of using laser-guided bombs; 16 converted. Photo Pickett. Very rare