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another good one!

Excellent photo please give information on aircraft and where

Anthony, that's a B-29 N69972, one of only two still airworthy. Details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_(aircraft)

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So frickin CLEAN! Does it fly? ;)

That's not an airplane,,, That is a piece of ART .... and a lot of hard work

I'm so glad to see "Doc" out and about! I've followed the progress of this big bird for years. It's a fantastic story. Great picture and thanks for sharing.

A lot of elbow grease has gone into that air craft for sure!

oompleted post WWII, so it's not 100% B-29 ... eg: no turrets.

@ a mentor: "Doc" is indeed a full-fledged 100% Boeing - Wichita B-29-70-BW Superfortress. According to Wikipedia (see Colin Seftel's post, above), this aircraft was given USAAF Serial Number 44-69972. Doc was built in 1944 and delivered to the USAAF in March 1945 (the war in the Pacific still had ~5 months to play out).

Doc did not see combat, but (not knowing for certain, this is an informed guess on my part) there is no reason to believe that construction of this frame - during the war - did not include the gun turrets and aiming station blisters. It is reasonable to believe that these were removed at some point in Doc's long career. Back to Wikipedia: There were 311 B-29 airframes built without turrets, but these were built by Bell - Atlanta.

Cheers!

And you'll notice no turrets on Enola Gay.
You say she's not 100% B-29????

Towards the end of the war, General Lemay had most if not all defensive armament removed to increase bomb load. There wasn't much need for it by then, considering Japan's lack of fighter defense, and the Mustang escort's protection.

sorry but i've lost the documentation re Doc being built from day one w/o turrets.
I think @Greg is spot on in that by late '45, they were considered unnecessary.

And I didn't say she's NOT a -29 -- just not as originally designed.

Thanks to all these people maintaining all these old ladies everywhere in the world.. They work for human history..