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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:377SGT Super Guppy Turbine
    Construction Number:0002
    Last Civil Registration:F-BPPA
    Compressed ID:Aero Spacelines 377SGT cn 0002 cr F...
    Latest Owner or Location:Musee Aeroscopia, Toulouse - Blagnac, Midi-Pyrenees

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 377SGT by Aero Spacelines.
    Using nose, horizontal stabilizer, section 46 and 47 from C-97K (ex KC-97G) c/n 16945 s/n 53-163. Wings and vertical stabilizer from KC-97G c/n 16903 s/n 53-121. Section 45 from unidentified model 377.

    August 1972

    To Aero Spacelines Inc, Santa Barbara, CA with new c/r N212AS {2}.

    24 August 1972

    First flight.

    2 August 1973

    Civil registration, N212AS {2}, cancelled.
    Exported to France.

    20 August 1973

    To Gie Airbus Industrie, Blagnac, Midi Pyrenees with new c/r F-BPPA.

    9 October 1975

    Civil registration, N112AS, cancelled.

    Circa 1980


    Photographer: Unknown

    January 1981


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 1981 photo on the apron at Paris Le Bourget

    Markings Applied: AIRBUS SKYLINK 2

    3 September 1986


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Super Guppy displayed at the 1986 Farnborough Airshow

    1 June 1996

    To Ailes Anciennes Museum, Toulouse-Blagnac.
    Retired to the museum after 14,110 hours of flight and 6261 landings.

    5 December 1996

    Civil registration, F-BPPA, cancelled.

    31 March 2012


    Photographer: Alexander Todt
    Notes: Aero-spacelines SUPER GUPPY 377 SGT-201, Les Ailes Anciennes Museum Toulouse-Blagnac (LFBO)

    Placed on display with Musee Aeroscopia, Toulouse-Blagnac, Midi-Pyrenees.
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    18 May 2019


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Musee Aeroscopia in Toulouse - Blagnac, France.

    18 May 2019


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Musee Aeroscopia in Toulouse - Blagnac, France.

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Under cover at Musee Aeroscopia, Toulouse, France

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Lets have a look inside at Musee Aeroscope, Toulouse, France
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    Alexander Todt
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