 In the 1980s , veterans groups engaged in a call for the Smithsonian to put the aircraft on display , leading to an acrimonious debate about exhibiting the aircraft without a proper historical context . The cockpit and nose section of the aircraft were exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum ( NASM ) in downtown Washington , D.C. , for the bombing 's 50th anniversary in 1995 , amid controversy . Since 2003 , the entire restored B @-@ 29 has been on display at NASM 's Steven F. Udvar @-@ Hazy Center . The last survivor of its crew , Theodore Van Kirk , died on July 28 , 2014 , at the age of 93 . 
