 Although a B-52 had arrived at Loring in January 1956 for cold weather testing, the first B-52C assigned to the wing landed at Loring on 16 June 1956 and was christened "The State of Maine" with a bottle containing water from both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as a symbol of the aircraft's range.The last C model had been accepted by December.All 35 B-52Cs in the Air Force inventory were initially delivered to the 42nd.