As part of the last B-29 production run the bomber was delivered eleven days after the surrender of Japan on September 13th, 1945. Army at the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas. The Lake Mead B-29, designated B-29 45-21847, was one of the last of over 1,620 B-29's built for the U.S. Both sites are in the final stages of documentation and the National Park Service is planning to open them to the public in the near future.ĭiver inspects inside the cockpit. The second site was a B-29 Superfortress bomber that crashed into the lake in 1948 after testing a prototype missile guidance system known as a "suntracker." The B-29 is in extraordinary condition and the fact that it is submerged in cold, fresh water will hopefully ensure this excellent state of preservation long into the future.
The first site was an aggregate plant that was used in the construction of the Hoover Dam and later submerged after the dam's completion in 1935. Led by the SRC's Dave Conlin and Brett Seymour the project's goal was to aid in the documentation of two historic sites within the Lake Mead National Recreational Area.ĭiver inspects the B-29's crushed cockpit (Photo: Brett Seymour NPS/SRC) From February 19-March 5, 2006, the Maritime Heritage Program's Tane Casserley, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary's Russ Green and the NOAA Dive Center's Bill Gordon joined the National Park Service's Submerged Resources Center (SRC) for a project in Nevada and Arizona.
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