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This aircraft was the last C-141 to be withdrawn from service. [77] 66-0186 – YC-141B is on display at the Aviation History & Technology Center adjacent to Dobbins Joint Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia. [citation needed] This is the first Starlifter to be converted from "A" model to "B" model. [citation needed]
As a result of Base Realignment and Closure action, the group no longer has aircraft assigned and is a associate squadron sharing KC-135R aircraft with AMC's 92d Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild. The group was first organized at Geiger Field , Washington in 1960 as the 141st Fighter Group .
The class became the USAF's first class of women graduates on September 2, 1977. [4] La Sauce retired from the military in 1992. [5] La Sauce and the other members of UPT class 77-08 were inducted to the Women in Aviation, International Pioneer Hall of Fame in 2016. [6] La Sauce's flight suit displayed at Norton Air Force Base Museum
The 141st Air Refueling Wing also moved from Geiger Field to nearby Fairchild Air Force Base to accommodate the larger KC-135A aircraft. [3] An Air National Guard spokesman at the time characterized the conversion from the F-101 Voodoo to the KC-135 as "like giving up an MG for a semi-truck ".
In 1989, a 459th C-141 was the first aircraft to fly troops and supplies into Howard Air Force Base, Panama during Operation Just Cause; the following year the wing was named the Air Force Reserve Outstanding Unit of the Year by the Air Force Association. In August 1990 wing aircrews were some of the first reservists activated in Support of ...
Hanoi Taxi is a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter strategic airlift aircraft (serial number 66-0177) that was in service with the United States Air Force and became famous for bringing back the first returned prisoners of war in Operation Homecoming. This aircraft, which was delivered to the Air Force in 1967, was the last C-141 to be withdrawn from ...
A third C-141 group joined the wing in September 1969, associated with the 437th Military Airlift Wing at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina. In 1969, the wing gained another group which flew the McDonnell Douglas C-9 Nightingales of the 375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing. A C-119 group remained with the wing until mid-1970.
Assigned to the wing on 8 January 1966, the C-141-equipped 75th Military Airlift Squadron transitioned to the C-5 Galaxy, becoming the Military Air Command's first operational squadron to fly the new transport aircraft. On 6 February 1972, the wing added a second C-5 squadron, when the 22d Military Airlift Squadron activated at Travis. [2]