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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-300 / C-141 Starlifter
    Latest Model:C-141B Starlifter
    Last Military Serial:66-7944 USAF
    Construction Number:300-6236
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-141B sn 66-7944 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-141A-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA, USA.

    Circa 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 66-7944.

    By 1968

    To 62nd Military Airlift Wing, Military Airlift Command, McChord AFB, WA.

    Circa 1968


    Photographer: Capt. David K. Whittemore
    Notes: Photo taken at an airshow at McChord AFB, WA.

    From February 1973 to April 1973

    Participated in Operation Homecoming. 66-7944 was the last aircraft to depart from Hanoi.

    Converted to a C-141B.

    By February 2003

    Transferred to 6th AS, 305th AMW, McGuire Air Force Base, NJ.

    February 2003

    C-141B #66-7944 was the aircraft responsible for bringing the bodies of the Space Shuttle Columbia crew to Dover AFB, DE, in the days following the disaster.

    14 September 2004

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CR0216.

    After 29 April 2009

    Scrapped.
    Credits
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     C-141 Heaven by Mike Novack
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Max Sabin
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