While the B-29 was still considered useful in the post World War II inventory, the numerous problems with development, (i.e. Between 19, many early and high-time combat veteran aircraft were sold or scrapped. However, this process trapped heat and moisture, resulting in numerous airframes being damaged by this process (primarily the avionics and instruments).
Ī vast majority of the B-29s were stored by a new process of cocooning. Uncompleted airframes at the Boeing Plant in Wichita, Kansas plant were stripped of all government furnished equipment and scrapped on the flightline. In September 1945, immediately after the surrender of Japan, all contracts for further production of the B-29 were terminated after 3,970 aircraft (2,766 by Boeing Aircraft, 668 by Bell Aircraft, and 536 by Glenn L.
