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A B-52H Stratofortress called Wise Guy has started flying from Tinker Air Force Base after Programmed Depot Maintenance, as it prepares to return to active service.
The bomber was retired in 2008 after more than 17,000 flight hours, but after a B-52 crashed in 2016, Wise Guy was selected to return and bring the fleet back to 76 aircraft. Wise Guy , the B-52H Stratofortress bomber tail number 60-034, is preparing to return to service with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.
The aircraft was filmed flying from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, where the aircraft had arrived on April 1, 2020, to undergo programmed depot maintenance at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex. The PDM is the final part of a three-phase process to regenerate the aircraft and make it able to return back to active service as a conventional weapons-only long range heavy bomber.
B-52H ‘Wise Guy’ was filmed taking flight at Tinker Air Force Base last week
It s being prepared to return to action with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, after a 12-year hiatus from active service
Wise Guy is only the second B-52H bomber ever to be regenerated from the famed aircraft cemetery ‘Boneyard’ at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Arizona
The bomber was retired in 2008 after logging more than 17,000 flight hours
The aircraft was intended to remain in the cemetery to be cannibalized for parts
However, it was selected for restoration after the 2016 crash of a B-52 in Guam
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