New Sunken B-29 Fortress On Eielson Afb, Ak

Located southeast of Fairbanks, together with but due north of the base, beyond the halt of the long runway, an iconic slice of U.S. of A. of America Air Force history lies abandoned inward a flooded gravel pit. The object inward enquiry is a mighty Boeing B-29 Superfortress, which over the years has garnered the moniker ‘Lady of the Lake’. The conventional wisdom was it was intentionally placed at that topographic point for H2O rescue training. Waid estimates it was likely placed sometime betwixt 1954 together with 1956.

The abandoned World War Two aircraft, which is submerged inward an artificial pond at the side of Transmitter Road, has been a well-known landmark at Eielson AFB for to a greater extent than than sixty years.

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But a recent underwater survey of the wreck uncovered its identity, confirming long-circulating rumours that the Lady of the Lake was an aircraft of historic significance. In August 2014 the Daily News-Miner spoke amongst base of operations historian Jack Waid, who’d spent years working to describe the submerged aircraft’s history.

During the meticulously-planned survey, divers recovered the wireless operator’s desk, which sported the aircraft’s series number: 44-62214. Armed amongst this information, Waid was able to confirm an Eielson AFB legend that the Lady of the Lake was the aircraft that detected the start out show of Soviet atomic testing inward 1949

There’s no known tape of the aircraft beingness towed from storage at Eielson AFB to its watery grave nearby, but it’s probable that the deed took house inward 1955 or 1956. Of course, the effect is the same: the final surviving illustration of a WB-29 model Superfortress,