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707-396C, OE-IDA, c/n 20043 seen on the MASDC recieving line in August 1985.This aircraft was a customs impound for weapons or something to that effect. It sat at MASDC for years and then one day we noticed it missing.
Many years later it was modified to a presidential fleet VC-137C, carrying the AFSN 85-6973.
I saw it several times at Luke AFB when VP Dan Quayle was visiting family in nearby Wickenburg AZ, but I never was able to photograph the jet.
This was a beautiful jet!
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Funny thing to think that a gun-runner would later become a presidential plane - it's more a story you'd expect about a Connie somewhere in Central-America, not of a 707 in the USA! XD
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This acft is now E-8C AFSN 00-2000.
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That's another unexpected twist in that particular airframe's story... o_o
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Not really. The USAF needed low time/ lo cycle airframes for the E-8 program.
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I see - sounds perfectly logical, of course!
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They were quite smoky too, like the B-52's. A few P-3's in the background too.
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At the time, the P-3B's were being retired. I did not shoot many of them becuase the marks were scrubbed.
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I think some were recycled into foreign marks.
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That and some Hawkins and Powers fire bombers
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I forgot about hose. I remember the P-2's in their bright colours though, and the Martin Mars, now that was some aeroplane.
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I shot a few P2 fire bombers back in the day. They were very pretty airplanes.
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Are they posted here?
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I am not sure If I have scanned them(?)
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Oh well, some time in the future perhaps.
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