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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:164606 USN
    Construction Number:47496
    Last Civil Registration:N536MD
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-9B sn 164606 USN cn 47496...
    Latest Owner or Location:Airfield Falls Trailhead and Conservation Park, Fort Worth, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    1972

    Constructed as a DC-9-33RC.

    7 August 1972

    First flight.

    19 September 1972

    To Iberia Airlines, Spain with new c/r EC-BYM.

    By August 1990

    Converted to a C-9B.

    23 August 1990

    To McDonnell Douglas with new c/r N536MD.

    23 August 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 164606.

    28 August 1990

    To McDonnell Douglas Corp, Long Beach, CA with new c/r N536MD.

    30 August 1990


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oklahoma City, OK Will Rogers Airport

    5 November 1990

    Civil registration, N536MD, cancelled.

    From Circa January 1991 to March 1995

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 60 (VR-60), NAS Memphis, TN.
    Operated with markings: City of Millington, RT-606

    Circa April 1995

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 61 (VR-61), NAS Whidbey Island, WA.
    Operated with markings: City of Bremerton, RS-606

    8 May 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    8 May 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 September 2007

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Circa September 2007

    Assigned to Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX for storage.

    By 2018

    To Airfield Falls Trailhead and Conservation Park, Fort Worth, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
    Only wing center section and tail cone survive and are displayed here, mounted on pedestals.
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    24 May 2018


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Airfield Falls Conservation Park, Fort Worth, TX.

    24 May 2018


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Airfield Falls Conservation Park, Fort Worth, TX.

    24 May 2018


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Airfield Falls Conservation Park, Fort Worth, TX.
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    U.S. Navy Patrol Squadrons
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Tom Tessier
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