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    Airframe Family: Short SC-7 Skyvan / SD3 / 330 / 360 / C-23 Sherpa
    Latest Model:C-23A Sherpa
    Last Military Serial:84-0460 US
    Construction Number:SH.3106
    Last Civil Registration:N178LM
    Compressed ID:Short C-23A sn 84-0460 US cn SH.310...
    Latest Owner or Location:Boise Gowen Field Air Terminal Airport, Boise, Idaho

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    Dates

    Event

    1985

    Constructed as a C-23A.

    30 January 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 84-0460.

    26 March 1991

    To USDA Forest Service Boise ID with new c/r N176Z.

    From 9 November 1991 to 26 August 2003

    To U S Department of the Interior, Boise ID with new c/r N178LM.

    Circa July 1997


    Photographer: David A. Montgomery
    Notes: At rest on the ramp at Palmer, Alaska in July 1997

    To Boise Gowen Field Air Terminal Airport, Boise, ID.
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    2023

    Fuselage still remains at Redmond Municipal, OR - being used by the US Forest Service Smokejumper School.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Mike Henniger
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