| May 18, 1945 | Aircraft 44-86292 delivered to U.S. Army Air Forces at Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory, Omaha, Nebraska. |
| June 14, 1945 | Aircraft ferried to Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, by pilot-in-command Capt. Robert A. Lewis. |
| June 27, 1945 | Aircraft and 11-man crew depart Wendover for South Pacific. |
| July 6, 1945 | Aircraft arrives at Guam, where additional modifications to the bomb bay are made, then flies on to Tinian Island in the Marianas. |
| July 12, 1945 | Aircraft and crew resume training. |
| Aug. 5, 1945 |
Aircraft 44-86292 formally named Enola Gay after Col. Paul Tibbets' mother. Ground crew works feverishly to prepare it for the next day's mission. |
| Aug. 6, 1945 |
Enola Gay departs at 2:45 a.m. for Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bomb is released over Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. local time. The aircraft returns to Tinian at 2:58 p.m., twelve hours and thirteen minutes after takeoff. |
| Aug. 9, 1945 | Flight report and operations order indicate that Enola Gay flies as weather plane on the Nagasaki atomic mission. |
| Sept. 2, 1945 | Japan formally surrenders aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
| Nov. 6, 1945 | Enola Gay departs Tinian for Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico where most of the 509th is based after the Japanese surrender. |
| April 29, 1946 | Enola Gay is flown to Kwajalein Island by Col. Tibbets for "Operation Crossroads" nuclear tests. |
| July 24, 1946 | Enola Gay, bearing "Operation Crossroads" special insignia, is flown to Davis-Monthan Army Air Field, Arizona, for storage. |
| July 3, 1949 | Enola Gay is retrieved from storage and flown to Orchard Place Army Air Field (now O'Hare International Airport) near Chicago by Colonel Tibbets. |
| July 3, 1949 | Enola Gay is formally accepted by the Smithsonian Institution for the National Air Museum. |
| Jan. 12, 1952 | Enola Gay is flown to Pyote Air Force Base, Texas, for temporary storage. |
| Dec. 2, 1953 |
Enola Gay is flown from Pyote Air Force Base, Texas, to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland and placed in storage. |
| Aug. 10, 1960 | Workers begin disassembling Enola Gay. |
| July 21, 1961 |
Enola Gay is moved overland to National Air Museum's storage facility in Suitland, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. |
| Dec. 5, 1984 | National Air and Space Museum crews begin restoring Enola Gay. |
| Nov. 22, 1994 | Forward fuselage of the Enola Gay is moved from Suitland, Maryland, to the National Air and Space Museum. |