What Happened to All 385 Ten-Engine B-36s?

America bought 385 B-36 Peacemakers, bombers with ten engines that the Strategic Air Command flew from 1948 to 1959. So what happened to all 385 of them? Tell us in the comments: if you flew, crewed or stood under a B-36, which one, and where was it? CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:54 Ten Engines 3:23 The Tornado 4:16 The Reactor 5:53 Broken Arrow 7:47 The Last Flight B-36 PEACEMAKERS ON DISPLAY (as of November 2026) Castle Air Museum, Atwater, California - RB-36H 51-13730 Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona - B-36J 52-2827 Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska - B-36J 52-2217A National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio - B-36J 52-2220 Hours and fees change. Check the museum's official site before you go. SOURCES - National Museum of the U.S. Air Force: Convair B-36J Peacemaker fact sheet; Keeping the Bear at Bay fact sheet - U.S. Department of Defense: Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1980 (1981) - Kirtland Air Force Base: This Week in History, Nuclear-powered aircraft program begins (2012) - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Air and Space Quarterly, Nuclear bomber - Lockheed Martin: Keeping the Peace, the B-36 - Air and Space Forces Magazine, October 2016: the B-36 - This Day in Aviation: February 13, 1950; February 12, 1959; April 30, 1959 - Castle Air Museum: aircraft list - Wikipedia: Convair B-36 Peacemaker; Convair NB-36H ARCHIVAL MATERIAL Public-domain photos and footage: U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Defense (DIMOC), U.S. Air Force / DVIDS, U.S. National Archives, NNSA / Nevada Site Office, Universal Newsreel (1946). Documents on screen: U.S. Department of Defense, Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1980; National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, B-36J fact sheet and Keeping the Bear at Bay fact sheet; Kirtland Air Force Base, This Week in History (2012). PHOTOS FROM WIKIMEDIA COMMONS - B-36J at the Pima Air and Space Museum, photo by Mike LaChance, CC BY 2.0 MUSIC (YouTube Audio Library) Haunted Forest - TrackTribe Spirit Riders - Telecasted Red Shift - Density & Time Atlantis Rage - Jimena Contreras Apocalyptic Echoes - Jimena Contreras Savior - Telecasted #B36 #Peacemaker #SAC