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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:KC-97G-29-BO Stratofreighter
    Last Military Serial:53-0151 USAF
    Construction Number:16933
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-97G-29-BO sn 53-0151 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-97G-29-BO by Boeing at Seattle, Washington, USA.

    24 November 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-0151.

    3 November 1965

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CH255.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    1969

    Placed on display with Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air Museum, AZ

    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 0151, 0-30151
    In markings of 9th Strategic Aerospace Wing, Mountain Home AFB, ID.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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