The Wichita Eagle’s complete coverage of the B-29 bomber known as ‘Doc’

In July of 2016, the B-29 bomber known as “Doc” took to the skies for the first time since it was decommissioned in 1956.

More than 16 years was spent restoring the plane, an effort involving hundreds of Wichita-area volunteers who collectively put in more than 350,000 hours. The cadre of volunteers included some people who worked on the original B-29 production line in Wichita or were B-29 crew members.

Boeing’s Wichita plant churned out 1,644 of the airplanes during World War II. The B-29 is best known as the bomber type that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II in the Pacific.

Doc, which served in a squadron named Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from 1945 until 1956, came to Wichita in pieces of the back of semis in 2000 to what was then Boeing Wichita on South Oliver. The company made space available at the factory for the bomber’s restoration.

Here is The Wichita Eagle and Kansas.com’s coverage of “Doc” over the years.

This story was originally published February 20, 2018 at 6:41 PM with the headline "The Wichita Eagle’s complete coverage of the B-29 bomber known as ‘Doc’."