{"id":18246,"date":"2024-03-08T04:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-active-b-52-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T04:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:45:12","slug":"what-is-the-oldest-b-52-still-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=18246","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Oldest B-52 Still In Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an eight-engine heavy bomber that has been an important part of the US Air Force fleet since the 1950s. Whilst the earliest aircraft entered service in 1955, today&rsquo;s active aircraft date from 1961 and 1962. With ongoing major upgrades, the same aircraft will likely still be flying in 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest B-52 has been in service for around 63 years, but some aircraft could reach 90 or even 100 years of flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,2038,1455,412,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-b-52","category-bomber","category-military","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18247,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18246\/revisions\/18247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}