2 more "Warbirds" headed to the Museum of Aviation

[Warbirdnerd]

Two large aircraft will be towed down Ga. 247 on Sunday, Nov. 20, – from Robins Air Force Base to the Museum of Aviation.

The transfer will bring a B-1B Lancer bomber and a C-141 Starlifter cargo transport to the museum for permanent display. The move will begin at 9 a.m. and take from two to three hours to complete. Traffic on Ga. 247 and near Gate 14 at Robins AFB will be interrupted during the move.

The Museum of Aviation front parking lot will be closed to allow movement of the B-1 into its position in front of the Eagle Building. Vehicles may be parked, however, behind Hangar One inside the Museum main gate.

B-1Bs were assigned to the 116th Bomb Wing at Robins from 1996 to 2002. Sixty-seven of them are still in the active U.S. Air Force inventory assigned to bomb wings at Dyess AFB, Texas, and Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota.

First designed and flown in the mid-1970s, the B-1B is a highly versatile, multi-mission weapon system that can deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary, anywhere in the world, at any time.

B-1s were used in combat in support of operations in Iraq in 1998 and later in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). B-1s dropped nearly 40 percent of the total tonnage during the first six months of OEF. On June 3, 1995, two Dyess AFB B-1Bs completed a historic 36-hour, 13-minute around-the-world mission. The flight brought the total number of world records established by the B-1B to 61.

The C-141 coming to the Museum is the last C-141 to compete Programmed Depot Maintenance at Robins Air Force Base in 2003.

“Uniquely a ‘ship of the line,’ the C-141 has for the past 45 years carried men, supplies and equipment all over the world,” said Museum Director Paul Hibbitts Sr. “It represents the hundreds of C-141s that the civilian and military workers here at Robins worked on and supported between 1960 and 2003. Both of these aircraft will be tremendous new additions to our historic aircraft collection.”
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[N3Njeff]

This post made me think of something...............out of all the C-141's that are out there.............does anyone know if the aircraft that picked up our POW's "Freedom Birds" from Vietnam still exist????
I think it would mean a lot to those guys to have one of those airplanes saved.

[ramprat]

According to Joe Baugher's page C-141 66-0177 is going to the NMUSAF. This was the first C-141 to land in Hanoi to pick up P.O.W.'s. The 445th AW/356th AS based at Wright-Patterson had the A/C repainted in the white over gray paint.

[airnutz]

66-0177, Hanoi Taxi is still with the 445th AW along with 3 of her Operation
Homecomeing sisters. It's been reported that they will continue until
spring 2006 and replaced with C-5's. www.afrc.af.mil/445aw/

[CorsairFreak]

At the Dayton airshow last year, the Hanoi taxi crew told us that as soon as they were replaced by C-5s the Hanoi taxi would go to the air force museum as a walk through exhibit

[spookyboss]

I just went thru Hanoi Taxi at the Nellis AFB airshow. it looks to be in fine shape and the crew told me Nellis was the last show for it before going to the Air Force museum. It WILL give you goose bumps when you tour it.