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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:KC-97L Stratofreighter
    Last Military Serial:53-0363 USAF
    Construction Number:17145
    Latest Owner or Location:March Field Air Museum, March AFB (former), Riverside, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-97G.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-0363.

    Converted to a KC-97L.

    19 October 1975

    Transferred to 181th Air Refuelling Squadron/136th Air Refuelling Wing, Dallas NAS, TX.

    24 June 1976

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CH561.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to March Field Air Museum, March Arb, CA.

    Placed on display with March Field Air Museum, March AFB (former), Riverside, CA.
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    October 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March Air Field Museum, when museum was on base.

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At March AFB.

    January 2002


    Photographer: Ross Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the March Field Museum in Riverside, CA.

    27 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photographed at March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California

    30 October 2021


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