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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:C-97G Stratofreighter
    Last Military Serial:52-2626 USAF
    Construction Number:16657
    Last Civil Registration:HB-ILY
    Compressed ID:Boeing C-97G sn 52-2626 USAF cn 166...
    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.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-2626.

    Converted to a C-97G.

    Markings Applied: 0-22626
    Placed on display.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-ILY.

    March 1969

    To Committee International Red Cross/Belair Air Lines, Switzerland keeping c/r HB-ILY.

    Transferred to a museum.

    30 March 1969

    Used for famine relief operation in Biafra, Nigeria, arriving at Basle on this date.

    18 March 1970

    Ferry flight.
    Departed Basle on return to the US.

    From 1970 to By 1973

    Assigned to Davis Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.
    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage here.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CH0439.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    1971

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    Restored.
    The vertical stabilizer was replaced with one from 52-2759.

    25 September 1980


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1980 photo at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ - of an ex Balair Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter

    March 1990


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

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 1994


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Scan from a slide.

    Circa 1996


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

    25 November 2005


    Photographer: John Meneely

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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