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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:377SGT Super Guppy Turbine
    Construction Number:0001 {1}
    Last Civil Registration:F-BTGV
    Compressed ID:Aero Spacelines 377SGT cn 0001 cr F...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 377SGT by Aero Spacelines.

    25 September 1969

    To Aero Spacelines Inc, Santa Barbara, CA with new c/r N211AS {1}.

    By 12 May 1970

    To Aero Spacelines keeping c/r N211AS {1}.

    24 August 1970

    First flight.

    24 September 1971

    Civil registration, N211AS {1}, cancelled.

    29 September 1971

    To Airbus Industrie, Toulouse-Blagnac, France with new c/r F-BTGV.

    1973


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1973 photo at Manchester in the UK

    6 June 1981


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1981 photo at Paris Le Bourget - of an Aero Spacelines 377 SGT Super Guppy Turbine (Boeing 377 conversion)

    1 July 1996

    Ferry flight.
    Retired and flown to Bruntingthorpe.

    7 February 1997

    To Midi Pyrenees keeping c/r F-BTGV.
    Based at Toulouse Blagnac.

    7 February 1997

    Civil registration, F-BTGV, cancelled.

    To Phoenix Aviation, Great Barrington Airport, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire/Leics, England.
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    Markings Applied: 1


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of Boeing-Aero Spacelines 377SGT Super Guppy Turbine, c/n 0001, c/r F-BTGV at Bruntingthorpe

    18 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo of Boeing-Aero Spacelines 377SGT Super Guppy Turbine, c/n 0001, c/r F-BTGV at Bruntingthorpe

    January 2021

    Scrapped.
    Broken up following the sale of the airfield land. Flight deck saved.

    4 February 2021

    To South Wales Aviation Museum, Saint Athan Airport, Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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    27 June 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    South Wales Aviation Group
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     Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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