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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-9/MD-81/MD-82/MD-83/MD-87/MD-88/MD-89 / C-9
    Latest Model:C-9B
    Last Military Serial:162754 NASA
    Construction Number:47476
    Last Civil Registration:N932NA
    Latest Owner or Location:Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    January 1970

    Constructed as a DC-9-33RC.

    15 January 1970

    First flight.

    6 February 1970

    To KLM Royal Dutch Airlines with c/r PH-DNZ.
    Operated with markings: City of Rome

    11 December 1981

    To McDonnell Douglas Finance Corporation with c/r N2679T.

    27 January 1982

    Leased to VIASA-Venezolana Internacional de Aviacion.

    June 1982

    Assigned civil registration: YV-139C

    12 February 1983

    Returned from lease.

    12 February 1983

    Assigned civil registration: N907DC

    17 March 1983

    To McDonnell Douglas, Yuma, AZ.

    From March 1983 to June 1983

    Converted to a C-9B.

    12 June 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 162754.

    From 27 June 1983 to After June 1991

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 51 (VR-51).
    Operated with markings: RV-754, Windy City
    Leet Logistics Support Squadron 51 (VR-51), USNR, NAS Glenview, IL.

    24 September 1983

    Civil registration, N907DC, cancelled.

    29 August 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Glenview Naval Air Station, Illinois

    23 June 1990


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Glenview Naval Air Station, Illinois

    By June 1998

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 52 (VR-52), NAS Willow Grove, PA.
    Operated with markings: JT-754

    By August 2002

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 61 (VR-61), NAS Whidbey Island, WA.
    Operated with markings: City of Anacortes, RS-754

    9 August 2003

    Transferred to NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), Ellington Field, TX.

    January 2004

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 162754.

    The primary mission of the NASA C-9 was to provide NASA and government microgravity researchers the platform to perform their research in a reduced gravity environment. The aircraft was also utilized for Heavy Aircraft Training (HAT) for astronaut pilots, support the movement of the shuttle from landing sites in California and New Mexico back to Kennedy Space Center, Trans-Atlantic Landing support and the Emergency Mission Control Move mission.(JBaugher).

    16 June 2004

    To National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX with c/r N932NA.

    By 2013

    Withdrawn from use.
    In storage with NASA.

    25 February 2016

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).
    On Celebrity Row.

    25 February 2016

    In the inventory of Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Celebrity Row, AMARC (taken through window of tour bus)


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Airliners.Net
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Plane Spotters by Thomas Noack
    RZJets
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols

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