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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-9B
    Last Military Serial:159119 USN
    Construction Number:47578
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-9B sn 159119 USN cn 47578...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-9B.

    10 July 1973

    First flight.

    17 August 1973

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159119.

    Circa August 1973

    Transferred to Fleet Tactical Support Squadron 1 (VR-1), NAS North Island, San Diego, CA.
    Operated with markings: 119, JK

    1976

    Unit redesignated Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1 (VR-1).

    February 1982


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Douglas C-9B Nightingale Bu159119 JU119 of VR-56 Squadron was the first of its type to visit Perth in February 1982 when it bought a 4 star Admiral to join US ships at Fremantle. Name City of Charleston on the nose

    By May 1985

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 56 (VR-56), NAS Norfolk, VA.
    Operated with markings: 119, City of Charleston, JU

    11 June 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    11 June 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    August 2004

    Markings Applied: City of Yorktown

    12 May 2010

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 4C0007.

    2 December 2010

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 5.
    View the Location Dossier

    15 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    Naval History and Heritage Command
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    Plane Logger
    RZJets
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
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