Talk:Turner Air Force Base/@comment-216.186.130.165-20190314144247/@comment-172.78.50.197-20190927181126

I was stationed at Turner AFB from 1965 thru 1966 and was an engine mechanic on the RB-50s. In the spring of 1966 one of the B-50s was discovered to have had a crack in a main wing spar and the decision to stop flying all of the B-50s was made. The base had a ceremony for the last B-50 on the base with dignitaries and four star generals attending with the aircraft lifting off for its final flight to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona known as the bone yard to be scrapped. Some of the B-50s were flown to aircraft museums around the country for their final resting place. Turner AFB was the last base to have the RB-50s in their inventory.

Jack Lawbaugh