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ID 27265 Views: 596 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	USA - Air Force Lockheed C-141 A/B/C Starlifter	Dayton - National Museum of the USAF (Wright AFB) (closed) (DWF) USA - Ohio, March 23, 2011	Nate Conrad Contact
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	66-0177 (cn 300-6203) March 23, 2011. This Lockheed C-141C, known as the Hanoi Taxi, became world famous on February 12, 1973 when it was the first aircraft to touchdown in Hanoi, North Vietnam to repatriate American POWs. In May, 2004, the Hanoi Taxi once again made history when Maj. Gen. Edward J. Mechenbier, himself a POW of Vietnam, flew it back to Vietnam to repatriate the remains of two American service members killed in action. The aircraft is currently on display outdoors, but the museum plans to move it indoors pending the completion of a 4th hangar for the museum.

ID 27262 Views: 570 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	USA - Air Force Northrop YC-125B Raider	Dayton - National Museum of the USAF (Wright AFB) (closed) (DWF) USA - Ohio, March 23, 2011	Nate Conrad Contact
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	48-626 / 48-622 (cn 2510) March 23, 2011. The aircraft on display is marked as 48-622, but is actually 48-626. The description at the display indicates that the plane was repainted to represent the YC-125B that was based at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1950 and used for cold-weather testing.

ID 27255 Views: 568 Photo Comments: 6	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	USA - Air Force Convair B-36 J-65-CF	Dayton - National Museum of the USAF (Wright AFB) (closed) (DWF) USA - Ohio, March 23, 2011	Nate Conrad Contact
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	52-2220 (cn 361) March 23, 2011. Fear that Britain would fall to Nazi Germany prior to the US entering WWII, the development of a truly long-range intercontinental strategic bomber was imperative. Technology of the day couldn't meet the demands set forth by the USAF; the B-36 was as close as anybody could come. On display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, this B-36 last flew 52 years ago on April 3, 1959 to be put on display in the museum. The aircraft is so massive that it could barely be framed from an upper-level observation area!

ID 27213 Views: 386 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Skywest Airlines Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-100ER	Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE/KCLE) USA - Ohio, March 23, 2011	Chuck Slusarczyk Jr. Contact
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	N413SW (cn 7102) Taxiing to gate C-29 in an older version of the house livery, this Skywest CRJ is operating for United Express. Coincidentally, I caught this same aircraft at LAX last month.

ID 27190 Views: 364 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7H4	Columbus - Port Columbus International (CMH/KCMH) USA - Ohio, March 23, 2011	Brad Thomas Contact
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	N908WN (cn 36620)

ID 27189 Views: 424 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Business (Corporate Aircraft) Bombardier CL-600-2B16 Challenger 605	Columbus - Port Columbus International (CMH/KCMH) USA - Ohio, March 23, 2011	Brad Thomas Contact
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	N910J (cn 5640) Co-owned by Penn National Gaming and Sterling Aviation Inc.

ID 27182 Views: 475 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-3H4	Columbus - Port Columbus International (CMH/KCMH) USA - Ohio, March 23, 2011	Stephen Mosley Sr. Contact
	Registration/Serial No. | Remarks & Notes
	N647SW (cn 27717) N647SW 'Triple Crown' on SWA 1309 arriving from Chicago Midway Intl (KMDW) on 28L.