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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:C-97G Stratofreighter
    Last Military Serial:53-0200 USAF
    Construction Number:16982
    Last Civil Registration:N79797
    Compressed ID:Boeing C-97G sn 53-0200 USAF cn 169...
    Latest Owner or Location:San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-97G.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-0200.

    Converted.

    To Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
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    16 April 1965

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CH0188.

    5 March 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-0200.

    From 9 June 1986 to By 1990

    To DMI Aviation Inc, Tucson, AZ with new c/r N79797 (C-97-G, 53200).

    15 February 1990

    Civil registration, N79797, cancelled.

    By 1996

    Placed in storage and later broken-up in a yard at Davis Monthan AFB.

    In the inventory of Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.
    Only the cockpit section was transferred to the Confederate Air.
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    Loaned to Commemorative Air Force-Air Group One, San Diego Wing, Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
    Force.
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    January 2002

    To San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
    Cockpit section (upper half of the nose section) preserved.
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    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    By 23 October 2009

    Civil registration, N79797, cancelled.

    7 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow, San Diego, California

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow in San Diego, California

    10 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at San Diego Air Museum - Gillespie Field
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