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To: lbryce

There can’t be but a hundred or so BUFF’s left in the inventory. Does anybody have a count?

5 posted on 02/20/2015 8:21:04 PM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)

To: motor_racer

As of 2013 according to Forbes

76 B-52s
63 B-1s
20 B-2s

12 posted on 02/20/2015 8:33:58 PM PST by McCloud-Strife ( USA 1776-2008)

To: motor_racer

There can’t be but a hundred or so BUFF’s left in the inventory. Does anybody have a count?

According to answers.com, there are 85 B-52H models left, and 9 in reserve.

The last H-model rolled off the assembly line on 26 October 1962...one month after I was born...and I'm 52!

17 posted on 02/20/2015 8:41:54 PM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)

To: motor_racer

As of January 2013, 78 of the original 744 B-52 aircraft were operational in the U.S. Air Force

37 posted on 02/20/2015 9:54:51 PM PST by GeronL

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