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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-1329 / C-140 Jetstar
    Latest Model:L-1329
    Last Military Serial:814 NASA
    Construction Number:5003
    Last Civil Registration:N814NA
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-1329 sn 814 NASA cn 5003...
    Latest Owner or Location:Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-1329.

    Circa 1960

    To Lockheed Aircraft Corporation with new c/r N9203R.

    29 November 1960

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 814.

    From May 1963 to 1989

    Transferred to Dryden Flight Research Center.

    Dryden, in co-operation with the Lewis Research Center, used the JetStar to investigate the acoustic characteristics of a series of subscale advanced design propellers in the early eighties. The propellers were designed to rotate at a tip speed faster than the speed of sound. They are, in effect, a swept back wing version of a propeller. The JetStar was modified with the installation of an air turbine drive system. The drive motor, with a 24-inch test propeller, was mounted in a pylon atop the JetStar. The aircraft research team was awarded the Collier Trophy for their efforts in 1987.

    June 1969

    To NASA with new c/r N814NA.

    From Circa 1969 to Circa 1977

    Was equipped with an electronic variable stability flight control system. Called then a General Purpose Airborne Simulator (GPAS), the aircraft could duplicate the flight characteristics of a wide variety of advanced aircraft and was used for supersonic transport and general aviation research, and as a training and support system for Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests at Dryden in 1977.

    9 August 1970


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    21 May 1981


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    29 July 1982


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    1985

    The wings were modified with suction and spray devices in a laminar (smooth) air flow program to study ways of improving the flow of air over the wings of airliners. The test article mounted on the right wing used suction through approximately 1 million 0.0025-inch diameter holes in the titanium skin to maintain laminar flown on the upper surface of the article.

    January 2003

    To Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, CA.
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    May 2005

    Placed on display.

    20 November 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Palmdale, California, U.S.A.

    26 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, California
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Joe Davies Heritage Airpark
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
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