The B-36 Peacemaker Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and displaying the last Convair B-36 built. Of 386 B-36's built from 1946 to 1952, only four survive.
B-36-J-III 52-827 was built in Fort Worth, Texas in 1952, and was retired in 1958. It was displayed at Amon Carter Field, later Greater Southwest Airport, from 1958 until the late 1970's, when it was moved to Carswell Air Force Base. Exposed to the extremes of Texas weather, the giant aircraft slowly deteriorated. In the early 1990s the aircraft was disassembled and moved indoors to hangar space at the factory where it was built, donated by Lockheed Aircraft. A group of dedicated volunteers, many of them retired Convair employees who had worked on the original B-36 assembly line, spent 40,000 man-hours restoring the plane.
The complete story of the preservation and restoration effort is told on Saving the Last Peacemaker a CD-ROM available through the Museum's giftshop. (2nd edition is sold out - 3rd edition is due Spring 2005)
The Museum is finalizing plans for an historical display at Meacham Field in Ft. Worth. Funds are currently (as of April 2005) being raised to construct a building in which to house and display the historic Cold War strategic bomber known as "The Last Peacemaker."
