hanoi taxi after 2002 repainting 1970s livery. other c-141s standard air force livery can seen in background
volunteers dobbins, arb, ga, shuttle patient arrived there on hanoi taxi. 100 hurricane katrina victims airlifted dobbins transportation hospitals in atlanta.
originally built standard c-141a, aircraft converted stretched c-141b in october 1981, along of c-141 fleet. subsequent avionics , structural upgrades saw aircraft converted c-141c standard in 1999. later in career transferred 445th airlift wing @ wright patterson air force base (wpafb) area in ohio. in 2002 aircraft s history discovered crew chief while undergoing maintenance, , shortly thereafter repainted in white-over-grey livery wore in 1973 during evacuation mission hanoi. signatures of freed prisoners preserved on panel on years , became centerpiece of flying museum . plaques, documents , photographs of homecoming part of on-board exhibit researched , created 445th airlift wing. etchings of names of missing in action taken engravings on vietnam veterans memorial in washington , mounted on plane. framed photographs, plaques, , other memorabilia adorn interior. following restoration aircraft first exhibited public @ 2003 dayton air show. appeared @ numerous other venues until retirement in may 2006.
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