page_title: Martin B-57 Canberra
section_title: Aircraft on display
hierarchical_section_title: Martin B-57 Canberra / Aircraft on display
caption_attribution_description: English: EB-57E Canberra s/n 55-4293
context_page_description: The Martin B-57 Canberra is an American-built, twinjet tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft that entered service with the United States Air Force in 1953. The B-57 is a license-built version of the British English Electric Canberra, manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin Company. Initial Martin-build models were virtually identical to their British-built counterparts; Martin later modified the design to incorporate larger quantities of US-sourced components and produced the aircraft in several different variants.
  The B-57 Canberra holds the distinction of being the first jet bomber in U.S. service to drop bombs during combat. The Canberra was used extensively during the Vietnam War in a bombing capacity; dedicated versions of the type were also produced and served as high-altitude aerial reconnaissance platforms, and as electronic warfare aircraft. The B-57 Canberra was also sold to export customers abroad; further combat use was seen by the Pakistani Air Force during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
  In 1983, the USAF opted to retire the type; the B-57 Canberra's retirement marked the ending of the era of the tactical bomber.
context_section_description: RB-57A
  52-1426 - Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan.
  52-1446 - Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum, Martin State Airport, Middle River, Maryland.
  52-1459 - Wings of Eagles Discovery Center in Horseheads, New York.
  52-1467 - Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum, Martin State Airport, Middle River, Maryland.
  52-1475 - Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, Georgia.
  52-1480 - Kansas Air National Guard / 190th Air Refueling Wing complex, Forbes Field Air National Guard Base (former Forbes AFB), Topeka, Kansas.
  52-1482 - USAF History and Traditions Museum, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas.
  52-1485 - Selfridge Military Air Museum and Air Park, Selfridge ANGB, Michigan.
  52-1488 - New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
  52-1492 - Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB, Utah. In April 1968, this aircraft was delivered to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, and was displayed there until 1982 when it was transferred to the Hill Aerospace Museum.
  B-57B
  52-1499 - National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. This aircraft was assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio as a test aircraft in the early 1960s. In 1965, it was returned to combat configuration to replace combat losses in Southeast Asia. It was assigned to the 8th Bomb Squadron at Phan Rang AB, South Vietnam in 1967, where it flew combat missions for 2½ years. Upon return to the United States, it was converted to an electronic countermeasures EB-57B and was flown to the museum in August 1981. It is on display in the Museum's Modern Flight gallery where it replaced an RB-57A (AF Ser. No. 52-1492) that had been on display at the Museum since April 1968. In 2012 Museum staff reconverted it to stock B-57B configuration and placed it back on display.
  52-1576 - Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards AFB, California.
  52-1584 - Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  EB-57B
  52-1500 - Vermont Air National Guard / 158th Fighter Wing complex at Burlington Air National Guard Base at Burlington International Airport in Burlington, Vermont.
  52-1504 - Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Texas.
  52-1505 - Malmstrom AFB Museum and Air Park, Malmstrom AFB, Montana.
  52-1506 - Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, Arizona.
  52-1509 - Laughlin AFB, Texas.
  52-1516 - Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB, Florida.
  52-1519 - March Field Air Museum, March ARB (former March AFB), Riverside, California.
  52-1526 - Kansas National Guard Museum, Topeka Regional Airport (former Forbes AFB), Topeka, Kansas.
  52-1548 - South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota.
  52-1551 - in storage at Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.
  B-57C
  53-3841 - 314th Airlift Wing complex, Little Rock AFB in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  B-57E
  55-4244 - Strategic Air and Space Museum near Offutt AFB in Ashland, Nebraska.
  55-4274 - Pima Air and Space Museum, adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.
  EB-57E
  55-4253 - Castle Air Museum (former Castle AFB) in Atwater, California.
  55-4279 - Peterson Air and Space Museum at Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  55-4293 - Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum at the former Lowry AFB in Denver, Colorado.
  RB-57D
  53-3982 - National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. This RB-57D is one of the 13 photoreconnaissance RB-57Ds. Painted as it appeared in the late 1950s while it served in the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, 4025th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (L), it went on display in 2004.
caption: EB-57E at Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Colorado, 2007
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