Lockheed C141B Starlifter
On display at Scott Field Heritage Air Park, Scott AFB, Illinois.
Aircraft 65-0236. This aircraft is painted in the C141A "White Top" scheme it carried until it's 1980 "B" conversion. This aircraft supported global airlift, airdrop, and aeromedical missions from 1966 until 1993. One mission of particular note occurred on February 12th, 1973. This aircraft flew to Gia Lam Airport, near Hanoi, North Vietnam on one of the first missions of "Operation Homecoming", the repatriation of American Prisoners of War. Today, this display honors all those who flew and supported the C141 Starlifter, the workhorse of Air Mobility for over 40 years.
This aircraft is on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
(per the display marker)
The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a military strategic airlifter in service with the Air Mobility Command (AMC) of the United States Air Force (USAF). The aircraft also served with AMC-gained airlift wings and air mobility wings of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and the Air National Guard (ANG) and, in later years, one air mobility wing of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) dedicated to C-141, C-5, C-17 and KC-135 training.
Introduced to replace slower piston-engined cargo planes such as the C-124 Globemaster II, the C-141 was designed to requirements set in 1960 and first flew in 1963. Production deliveries of an eventual 285 planes began in 1965: 284 for the Air Force, and one for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for use as an airborne observatory. 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.
Lockheed C141B Starlifter
On display at Scott Field Heritage Air Park, Scott AFB, Illinois.
Aircraft 65-0236. This aircraft is painted in the C141A "White Top" scheme it carried until it's 1980 "B" conversion. This aircraft supported global airlift, airdrop, and aeromedical missions from 1966 until 1993. One mission of particular note occurred on February 12th, 1973. This aircraft flew to Gia Lam Airport, near Hanoi, North Vietnam on one of the first missions of "Operation Homecoming", the repatriation of American Prisoners of War. Today, this display honors all those who flew and supported the C141 Starlifter, the workhorse of Air Mobility for over 40 years.
This aircraft is on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
(per the display marker)
The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a military strategic airlifter in service with the Air Mobility Command (AMC) of the United States Air Force (USAF). The aircraft also served with AMC-gained airlift wings and air mobility wings of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and the Air National Guard (ANG) and, in later years, one air mobility wing of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) dedicated to C-141, C-5, C-17 and KC-135 training.
Introduced to replace slower piston-engined cargo planes such as the C-124 Globemaster II, the C-141 was designed to requirements set in 1960 and first flew in 1963. Production deliveries of an eventual 285 planes began in 1965: 284 for the Air Force, and one for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for use as an airborne observatory. 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.