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One of two Boeing B-29's Flying in the world. Engine Start Up, Maintenance Check, Flight & Landing at the CAF Camarillo Airport in California on 04-22-2017. Boeing B-29A Superfortress "FIFI" N529B (cn 11547) Manufactured in 1944."FIFI" was built by Boeing at the Renton factory in Washington, B-29A serial number 44-62070 was delivered to the USAAF in Kansas in 1945. Modified to a TB-29A standard, it served as an administrative aircraft before being placed in "desert storage". It was returned to active duty in 1953.Following retirement in 1958, Boeing B-29A, s/n 44-62070, as part of a group of 36 B-29s, placed at the US Navy Naval Weapons Center and bombing range at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, at China Lake, California. The Commemorative Air Force, then known as the Confederate Air Force, acquired it in 1971 and registered it as a civilian aircraft. It was flown to CAF headquarters at Harlingen, Texas on 3 August 1971 and re-registered as N529B in August 1981."FIFI" has appeared in films, including the Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, and the Atomic Bomb (1980) and in the 1983 film The Right Stuff, standing in for the Bell X-1's "mothership". (Info from Wikipedia)I want to thank the "CAF" (Commemorative Air Force) for allowing people to experience such a great piece of history on the ground and in the air. Click on the website listed below for more info.http://www.cafb29b24.org/