When it comes to airplanes, age is completely relative. The youngest B-52 in the current USAF fleet already had been in service for 27 years before this plane was built.
—”The youngest B-52 in the current USAF fleet already had been in service for 27 years before this plane was built.”
And that reminded me of:
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — When Capt. Daniel Welch, 23rd Bomb Squadron Pilot, arrived at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., in January 2011, he became part of the same squadron his grandfather commanded in the 1970s, the 23d Bomb Squadron, a unit of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot.
https://www.minot.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/264580/three-generations-of-b-52-airmen/