Boeing VC-137C 72-7000 89th Airlift Wing Secondary VIP Scheme The significance of this transaction

The significance of this transaction cannot be overstated: Japanese engineers at the Naval Air Technical Arsenal studied the V-143 in exhaustive detail

passing through Glacier National Park and the Cascade Mountains

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this aircraft was dedicated to ongoing signals and electronics evaluation rather than standard liaison or observation duties

Boeing VC-137C 72-7000 89th Airlift Wing Secondary VIP Scheme The significance of this transactionThese are 1 72 scale decals for Boeing VC 137C 72 7000 SAM 27000 assigned to the 89th Airlift Wing at Andrews AFB, Maryland, wearing the Secondary VIP scheme of its later career featuring a polished metal lower fuselage, darker True Blue (FS 15180) upper surfaces, and "United States of America" titling without the Presidential seal. After the VC 25A (the Boeing 747 based Air Force One) assumed the primary presidential transport role in 1990, SAM 27000