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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-9/MD-81/MD-82/MD-83/MD-87/MD-88/MD-89 / C-9
    Latest Model:C-9C
    Last Military Serial:73-1682 USAF
    Construction Number:47670
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-9C sn 73-1682 USAF cn 476...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, Delaware

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    Dates

    Event

    1975

    Constructed as a VC-9C.

    29 January 1975

    First flight.

    11 March 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 73-1682.

    11 March 1975

    Transferred to 89th Military Airlift Wing, Andrews AFB, MD.

    1977

    Redesignated as C-9C.

    1982

    Modified by E-Systems with secure communications in order to serve as an Air Force Two platform. This system included an Airborne Communications Systems Operator crew position located several feet behind the copilots seat.

    2 November 1990


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich
    Notes: Air Force 2 departing Ontario Intl

    10 February 1996


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed from the control tower at Cedar Rapids Airport (film got hot and so the image was poor).

    This VC-9C transported Americas top leadership from 1975 until 2011. Much of that time it served as Air Force Two for Vice Presidents Walter Mondale, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore and Dick Cheney. It also served serveral of Americas First LadiesaCoRosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary R. Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama. When this aircraft was needed to transport presidents into smaller airportsaCoRonald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. BushaCoit served as Air Force One. It also transported visiting world leaders such as Queen Elizabeth II and the Chief of Staff of the Peoples Republic of China. This VC-9C has extended range fuel tanks. (Air Mobility Command).

    September 2005

    Transferred to 73rd Airlift Squadron, 932nd Airlift Wing (AFRES), Scott AFB, IL.

    August 2011

    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.

    18 August 2011

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, DE.
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    Photographer: uinkown

    13 May 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: at Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, DE
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    Aviation Enthusiast Corner
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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