61-2669 / USA 11.1991
61-2669 Boeing C-135C Stratolifter United States Air Force
This one was also called Speckled Trout - Speckled Trout is the official name of a combined SAF/CSAF support mission and concurrent test mission. She was used by the Secretary and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force for executive transport requirements. Fully equipped with an array of communications equipment, data links and cryptographic sets, the aircraft served a secondary role as a testbed for proposed command and control systems and was also used to evaluate future transport aircraft design (by Wikipedia).
Built as C-135B in 1962, later WC-135B. Wfu and used as instructional airframe by 2006.
(slide scan from my collection - not taken by myself)
61-2669 / USA 11.1991
61-2669 Boeing C-135C Stratolifter United States Air Force
This one was also called Speckled Trout - Speckled Trout is the official name of a combined SAF/CSAF support mission and concurrent test mission. She was used by the Secretary and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force for executive transport requirements. Fully equipped with an array of communications equipment, data links and cryptographic sets, the aircraft served a secondary role as a testbed for proposed command and control systems and was also used to evaluate future transport aircraft design (by Wikipedia).
Built as C-135B in 1962, later WC-135B. Wfu and used as instructional airframe by 2006.
(slide scan from my collection - not taken by myself)