Warbird Information Exchange

I believe...believe mind you...that the Travis AFB Museum has one of the wheels

And NMUSAF has another..it's been used as a bench for as long as I can remember.

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I ran across this photo on the interwebulator a few years back, showing the mortal remains of the XB-19 in a dump. I've seen the tire at the NMUSAF many times..too back they couldn't have saved at least this forward section as well.

SN

Something's been bugging me about that scrapyard photo...and I've realized what it is. That cockpit section is from the Douglas XB-19, not the Boeing XB-15! The main wheel at Dayton is also from the XB-19. They're quite different aircraft, with the Douglas being about a third again as big and having tricycle gear.

(Never mind: missed the bottom of page 1, where the XB-19 does get mentioned, leading to that interesting shot of the cockpit. However, seeing as the bird scrapped stateside is the XB-19, which it clearly was, that means the XB-15 wreckage could still reappear; cool...)

S.

(Hey, look at that, my 1000th post...)

Um i think it is in Panama.

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Always looking for WW2 Half-Tracks and Parts.

They used to have the front portion of a B-29. In addition to their B-50. I read once where it "disappeared" during on of their moves.

All of the recent interest in digging for buried WWII planes next to far off jungle airports caused me to find and resurrect this thread about the XB-15/XC-105 and its supposed disposal in a swamp/dump in the Panama Canal Zone.

Plus, I came across the "Pacific Wrecks" listing for the aircraft and thought I'd go ahead and post the link here ..

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/xb-15/35-277.html

Interesting image from a lurker on these here boards.

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-Bill
B-17E 41-2595 "Desert Rat" Restoration Team

That data plate is as rare as they come.

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Is it possible the data plate is not genuine? Maybe I'm being the pessimist, but it seems like there are buff marks in the "type" and "serial number" fields.