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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-9A
    Last Military Serial:71-0882 USAF
    Construction Number:47541
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-9A sn 71-0882 USAF cn 475...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    1972

    Constructed as a C-9A.

    7 July 1972

    First flight.

    18 August 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 71-0882.

    By 1977

    Transferred to 7111th Operations Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.

    9 October 1977


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 71-0882 Douglas C-9A Nightingale (DC-9-32CF). USAF, operated by 7111th OS. On final approach to 28L at Heathrow.

    By July 1983

    Transferred to 58th Military Airlift Squadron, 608th Military Airlift Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

    23 July 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT 83

    12 February 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Lawton, OK

    By June 1988

    Transferred to 55th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron, 435th Tactical Airlift Wing, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.

    By 2000

    Transferred to 75th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

    From 15 September 2003 to 1 December 2010

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CN0013.

    After 1 December 2010

    Scrapped.
    At AMARC by New Phoenix Metals.
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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