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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:KC-97L Stratofreighter
    Last Military Serial:53-0230 USAF
    Construction Number:17012
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-97L sn 53-0230 USAF cn 17...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, Delaware

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-97G.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-0230.

    28 June 1955

    Transferred to 384th Air Refueling Squadron (Medium) (Strategic Air Command), Westover AFB, MA.

    16 May 1965

    Converted to a KC-97L.

    6 August 1976

    New serial number assigned:

    September 1980

    Ferry flight.
    To Beale AFB Museum.

    8 October 1980


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 53-0230 Boeing KC-97L USAF. ex-Tennessee ANG and storage at MASDC, this KC-97 was flown to Beale in September 1980 to join a small collection of preserved aircraft. The Beale museum has since been closed, and 30230 is now preserved at Dover AFB, Delaware

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 436 AW/MU, Dover AFB, DE.

    Placed on display with Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, DE.
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    13 May 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: at Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, DE
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