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    Airframe Family: North American B-45 Tornado
    Latest Model:B-45A-1-NA Tornado
    Last Military Serial:47-0016 USAF
    Construction Number:147-43416
    Compressed ID:NA B-45A-1-NA sn 47-0016 USAF cn 14...
    Latest Owner or Location:17th TOW, 4750th ADW, Yuma AFB, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-45A-1-NA.

    Circa 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 47-0016.


    Photographer: Unknown

    By April 1955

    Transferred to Headquarters Squadron, Griffiss AFB, NY.

    21 April 1955

    Damaged.
    Damaged at Scott AFB, IL.

    By July 1956

    Transferred to 17th TOW, 4750th ADW, Yuma AFB, AZ.

    20 July 1956

    Destroyed in a crash.
    The B-45A was on a routine target towing mission when a flap got stuck. When the emergency procedures did not work, the crew was ordered to bail out, but the flight engineer S/Sgt Harold A. Kasparek failed to leave the aircraft and was killed in the crash. The three surviving crew members were: pilot Capt. Charles S. Soloski, 1st Lt. Doyle C. Williams and S/Sgt. Richard H. Shepard.
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