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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:160049 USN
    Construction Number:47598
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-9B sn 160049 USN cn 47598...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-9B.

    9 January 1976

    First flight.

    February 1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160049.

    From February 1976 to After September 1991

    Transferred to Assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 58 (VR-58), NAS Jacksonville, FL.
    Operated with markings: City of Jacksonville, JV-040

    From Circa August 1990 to Circa February 1991

    Flew missions in support of Operation Desert Storm.

    By July 2002

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 52 (VR-52), Joint Reserve Base, Willow Grove, PA.
    Operated with markings: City of Philadelphia, JT-049

    5 July 2002


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    16 November 2011

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2763.

    22 February 2012

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Circa 2012

    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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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    RZJets
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
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