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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:377PG Pregnant Guppy
    Construction Number:15924
    Last Civil Registration:N126AJ
    Compressed ID:Aero Spacelines 377PG cn 15924 cr N...
    Latest Owner or Location:American Jet Industries Inc, Van Nuys, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 377-10-26.

    7 October 1948

    First flight.

    To Boeing with new c/r N1024V.
    Operated with markings: Clipper America
    Used by Boeing for tests but while finished in PAA colours.

    Circa 1949


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes Collection

    Circa 1949


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes Collection

    12 June 1949

    To PAA keeping c/r N1024V.
    Markings added: Clipper Bald Eagle

    Markings Applied: Clipper Cathay
    Used on Pacific routes.

    1960

    Stored in Miami.

    1961

    To Boeing keeping c/r N1024V.

    To Mansdorf keeping c/r N1024V.

    To Aero Spacelines keeping c/r N1024V.

    Converted to a 377PG by Aero Spacelines.


    Photographer: Roger Bilstein Collection

    To American Jet Industries Inc, Van Nuys, CA with new c/r N126AJ (B377PG, 15924).

    October 1962


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    5 February 1979

    Civil registration, N126AJ, cancelled.

    By 23 October 2009

    Civil registration, N126AJ, cancelled.

    Scrapped.


    Photographer: Tom Irwin
    Notes: I was 17 years old doing this EC
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