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DMA.2014 # USAF - Lockheed C-141B 67-0013 "Starlifter" awp

@ United States Air Force USAF

Lockheed C-141B Starlifter ( L-300 ) msn 300-6264

- Engines : 4x Pratt & WhitneyTF33-P-7

- Reg : 67-0013

@ History aircraft :

# 1967 : built as C-141A ( 264 of 285 ) at factory Lockheed Martin de Marietta - Dobbins Air Reserve Base GA USA

# 1967 : Flow to the 305th AMW located at McGuire AFB

# 07.10.2000 : Arrived to AMARG code AACR0105 and later preserved at Pima Air & Space Museum

@ RMK : Introduced to replace slower propeller driven cargo planes such as the C-124 "Globemaster II" and C-133 Cargomaster - the C-141 was designed to requirements set in 1960 and first flew in 1963

Production deliveries of 285 planes began in 1965: 284 for USAF, and 1 for NASA.

The aircraft remained in service for over 40 years until the USAF withdrew the last C-141s from service in 2006, after replacing the airlifter with the C-17 "Globemaster III"

 

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