RB-66B off dirt road

Abilene, Texas (TX), US

Found this plane just sitting in an open field near Dyess AFB. Looks like it should be part of the static plane display.

RB-66B off dirt road

Abilene, Texas (TX), US

Found this plane just sitting in an open field near Dyess AFB. Looks like it should be part of the static plane display.

No Longer There, Airplanes - Military - Static Display - Bombers
By: jrodp

Nearby:

Nuclear weapons storage at Dyess AFB

Boeing B-52 "Stratofortress"

Boeing B-47 "Stratojet"

Boeing KC-97 "Stratofreighter"

"Reluctant Dragon" Boeing B-17

Rockwell B-1B "Lancer"

Lockheed C-130A Hercules

Lockheed-Martin C-130H Hercules

General Dynamics F-111 "Aardvark"

Curtiss P-40 "Warhawk"

General Dynamics F-111A 'Aardvark'

Airplanes on static display

Comments

kjfitz

@ 2006-03-30 11:02:43

Welcome to VGT!

Hinkkanen

@ 2006-03-30 11:27:22

Douglas B-66?

kjfitz

@ 2006-03-30 11:43:28

On the Google Earth Forums it is identified as a RB-66B that was on static display at th front gate but relaced by the B-1 bomber "Star of Abiline."

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/336036/page/vc/vc/1

kjfitz

@ 2006-03-30 11:46:26

Douglas RB-66B 'Destroyer' SN: 53-0466

There is a picture of it here from before it was removed from the static display

http://www.aero-web.org/museums/tx/dlap/53-0466.htm

kjfitz

@ 2006-03-30 11:48:59

"The RB-66B on display was modified for service in Vietnam having cameras mounted along the bottom of the fuselage and a chaff dispenser replaced the tail gun turret.

This aircraft last served at Bergstrom AFB and is one of only seven still in existence."

http://www.dyess.af.mil/airpark/rb-66b.htm

Anonymous

@ 2022-12-01 23:11:47

Why is the EB-66 just sitting in a field? Is it waiting for a permanent pad to display it? My Dad was a Navigator/EWO officer on one during the Vietnam war, he was stationed at Korat Thailand, on 12/23/1972 on return from a mission the plane lost power & crashed, all 3 crewmen were killed.