Convair RB-36H Peacemaker

This massive and rather attractive bomber has 6 28-cylinder supercharged air-cooled four-row radial piston aircraft engines, and 4 jet engines!

The small dome on the nose is part of the bombsight, this case, the sight was build by Kodak.

This is one of only four B-36 aircraft remaining and the only reconnaissance version. It served with the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Rapid City Air Force Base, South Dakota (Ellsworth AFB after June 1953) from 1952 to 1957. In 1957, it was sent to Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. There it served as a ground instructional airframe and finally was part of Chanute's Air Museum. It was brought to Castle in 167 pieces, requiring 11 Santa Fe flatbed cars to move it (The BNSF still runs a busy line right next to the museum). It took the efforts of dozens of volunteers and two and a half years of work to reassemble and paint the B-36.