Castle Air Museum

Castle Air Museum opened in 1981 beside the former Castle Air Force Base and holds more than eighty aircraft. Its most-reported airframe is a B-29 Superfortress named Raz'n Hell — which is not one aircraft but three, assembled from the tail of 44-61535, the wings of 44-84084 and the fuselage of 44-70064. Staff and volunteers, including the museum's chief executive, have described the bomber's landing lights coming on although the wiring was removed, the propellers turning although they are locked in place, and a shadowy figure around the cockpit. The presence is nicknamed Arthur, though nobody can say who Arthur would be. The commonly repeated claim that a crewman died aboard when a bomb exploded on a mission is not supported: research into these airframes found no death connected to them, and this aircraft never flew in combat at all. That it is three planes stitched into one is the more interesting fact, and the likeliest reason no name can be put to what is reported.