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| Keywords: US Navy EB-47E at Point Mugu 1971.jpeg A U S Navy Boeing EB-47E Stratojets at at the Naval Missile Center Point Mugu California USA The U S Air Force B-47Es 52-410 and 52-412 were converted to EB-47Es in the mid-1960s for service with U S Navy's Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group FEWSG They were assigned the BuNos 24100 and 24102 which had already ben assigned to Grumman TBF-1 Avengers in the 1940s Considered to be on indefinite loan from USAF these aircraft were unlike the USAF EB-47Es with some of their ECM gear fitted into pods carried on the external fuel tank pylons They were used for tests of naval ECM systems and as electronic aggressors in naval and joint exercises These two aircraft were the last B-47s in operational service and 52-410 performed the very last operational flight of a B-47 on 20 December 1977 when it was flown to Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire USA 24120 is today on display at the Dyess Linear Air Park Dyess Texas http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 13999 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 1996 253 7127 005 1971-05 PH1c Brittain USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Boeing B-47 Stratojet Pacific Missile Test Center Point Mugu | ||||
