Editing Boeing B-29 Superfortress (section)

==Surviving aircraft==
{{Main|List of surviving Boeing B-29 Superfortresses}}
[[File:FIFI and Doc.jpg|thumb|The two remaining flyable B-29s: [[FIFI (aircraft)|''FIFI'']] (top) and [[Doc (aircraft)|''Doc'']] (bottom)]]
Twenty-two B-29s are preserved at various museums worldwide, including two flying examples; [[FIFI (aircraft)|''FIFI'']], which belongs to the [[Commemorative Air Force]], and [[Doc (aircraft)|''Doc'']], which belongs to Doc's Friends. Doc made its first flight in 60 years from Wichita, Kansas, on 17 July 2016.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.kansas.com/news/business/aviation/article90144877.html | title=It wasn't easy, but B-29 Doc takes to Wichita skies}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.mcconnell.af.mil/News/Article/842055/b-29-doc-takes-to-the-skies-from-mcconnell|title=B-29 'Doc' takes to the skies from McConnell|last=Waller|first=Staff Sgt. Rachel|date=17 July 2016|work=[[McConnell AFB]]|access-date=3 January 2024}}</ref> The public is being invited to inspect and take a short paid flight in Doc and Fifi at various venues.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.b29doc.com/event/allentown-pa-b-29-doc-history-restored-tour/| title=Allentown, PA: B-29 Doc History Restored Tour}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.airpowersquadron.org/#:~:text=AirPower%20History%20Tour%E2%80%8B%20%C2%B7%20SPRING%20Greenville%2C%20Texas,%C2%B7%20Syracuse%2C%20New%20York%20June%2019%2D23%2C%202024 | title=CAF AirPower History Tour featuring the B-29 Superfortress FIFI }}</ref>

Three of the Silverplate B-29s modified to drop nuclear bombs survived. Superfortress 44-86292 ''[[Enola Gay]]'' (nose number 82), which dropped the first atomic bomb, was fully restored and placed on display at the [[Smithsonian]]'s [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center|Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air & Space Museum]] near [[Washington Dulles International Airport]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |title=Enola Gay  |date= 20 March 2003 |publisher= National Air and Space Museum |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/enola-gay |access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Exhibition of B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay  |date= 17 May 2005 |publisher= National Air and Space Museum |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/newsroom/press-releases/frequently-asked-questions-regarding-exhibition-b-29-superfortress-enola-gay |access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref> The B-29 that dropped [[Fat Man]] on [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki#Nagasaki|Nagasaki]], Superfortress 44-27297 ''[[Bockscar]]'' (nose number 77), is restored and on display at the [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]] at [[Wright-Patterson AFB]] in Dayton, Ohio, posed with a replica of the Mark 3 Fat Man nuclear bomb.<ref>{{cite web |title=Boeing B-29 Superfortress |publisher=National Museum of the United States Air Force |url=https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196252/boeing-b-29-superfortress/ |access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref> The third is Superfortress 45-21748, which was delivered on 9 August 1945 and is on display at the [[National Museum of Nuclear Science and History]] in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |title=Completed B-29 Superfortress  |publisher=National Museum of Nuclear Science and History|url=https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/see/exhibits/operation-preservation/completed-b-29-superfortress |access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=National Museum of Nuclear Science & History |publisher=Atomic Archive |url=https://atomicarchive.com/media/photographs/nuclear-journeys/nmnsh/nmnsh-76.html |access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref>

Only two of the twenty-two museum aircraft are outside the United States: ''It's Hawg Wild'' at the [[Imperial War Museum Duxford]] and another at the [[KAI Aerospace Museum]] in [[Sachon]], South Korea.<ref>Weeks, John A. III. [http://www.johnweeks.com/b29/index.html "B-29: The Superfortress Survivors."] ''ohnweeks.com'', 2009. Retrieved: 17 July 2009.</ref>