71-0876_1978-09-08_MUC_1600_SR
Photo taken by Stefan Röhrich.
München-Riem
1978-09-08 (8 September 1978)
71-0876 / 10876
McDonnell Douglas C-9A Nightingale (DC-9-32CF)
47475 / 653
United States Air Force (USAF)
71-0876 is taxiing to Riem’s runway 25 for take-off. Original livery with the cheatline above the windows. Noted several times at the airport during the 1970s (28 January 1978, 8 September 1978, 8 March 1979) and also ten years later on 18 April 1988, 19 February 1989 and 3 February 1990.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Bob Garrard:
Serial 71-0876 was configured as VIP transport for supreme Allied commander of NATO, it was the last C-9A with USAF. Left Ramstein AB Sep 20 2005 for USA and assigned to USAF Museum. Loaned and put on display at Andrews AFB Museum, Maryland. Offered for sale by GSA auction Feb 18, 2015. Acquired by Waterworld Jet Aviation LLC and ferried from ADW to BWI on May 16, 2017 as N10876. This registration was cancelled on 6th September 2019 but the aircraft remained at BWI wearing that number. On December 3, 2019 it was re registered to Frontera Flight Holdings and ferried out of BWI on June 4. 2020 to SHV (Shreveport) and then to SLW (Saltillo - Plan de Guadalupe) in Mexico.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/71-0876/640143
71-0876 at NUE in May 1994 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/130658785@N08/47909002861
71-0876 at BRU in February 2005 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/oo-luc_aircraft_archive/50600452563
71-0876 stored at Andrews AFB (ADW) in March 2010:
www.flickr.com/photos/lockonaviation/53195150499
This airframe as N10876 with Waterworld Jet Aviation at BWI in June 2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/lockonaviation/34718552550
N10876 at Saltillo Plan de Guadalupe (SLW), Mexico, in January 2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/aeroprints/51846278029
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
71-0876_1978-09-08_MUC_1600_SR
Photo taken by Stefan Röhrich.
München-Riem
1978-09-08 (8 September 1978)
71-0876 / 10876
McDonnell Douglas C-9A Nightingale (DC-9-32CF)
47475 / 653
United States Air Force (USAF)
71-0876 is taxiing to Riem’s runway 25 for take-off. Original livery with the cheatline above the windows. Noted several times at the airport during the 1970s (28 January 1978, 8 September 1978, 8 March 1979) and also ten years later on 18 April 1988, 19 February 1989 and 3 February 1990.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Bob Garrard:
Serial 71-0876 was configured as VIP transport for supreme Allied commander of NATO, it was the last C-9A with USAF. Left Ramstein AB Sep 20 2005 for USA and assigned to USAF Museum. Loaned and put on display at Andrews AFB Museum, Maryland. Offered for sale by GSA auction Feb 18, 2015. Acquired by Waterworld Jet Aviation LLC and ferried from ADW to BWI on May 16, 2017 as N10876. This registration was cancelled on 6th September 2019 but the aircraft remained at BWI wearing that number. On December 3, 2019 it was re registered to Frontera Flight Holdings and ferried out of BWI on June 4. 2020 to SHV (Shreveport) and then to SLW (Saltillo - Plan de Guadalupe) in Mexico.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/71-0876/640143
71-0876 at NUE in May 1994 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/130658785@N08/47909002861
71-0876 at BRU in February 2005 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/oo-luc_aircraft_archive/50600452563
71-0876 stored at Andrews AFB (ADW) in March 2010:
www.flickr.com/photos/lockonaviation/53195150499
This airframe as N10876 with Waterworld Jet Aviation at BWI in June 2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/lockonaviation/34718552550
N10876 at Saltillo Plan de Guadalupe (SLW), Mexico, in January 2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/aeroprints/51846278029
Scan from Kodachrome slide.