1969: Boeing Gets a B-47

Still sporting its USAF markings, 51-7066 is seen soon after its arrival in 1969.

Joined by other Boeing products new and old: a Model 247, and a 747 (5th one built for TWA).

As the B-47 fleet was retired in the mid-1960s, it occurred to Boeing that despite having built over 2,000 Stratojets for everyone else, they didn’t have one to call their own. This issue was happily resolved when the USAF handed its last operational B-47 (by then converted to a WB-47) to Boeing in 1969. That bird, 51-7066, is, of course, still at Boeing Field today, where it is proudly parked in front of the Museum of Flight.