K25 slide scan. Built 1955 as KC-97G 53-218 for USAF, later redesignated KC-97L, retired to MASDC. In use as Flight 97 Restaurant at McMinnville, OR 1985. Made airworthy again by Hawkins and Powers 1992 and flown to Greybull for storage. Note sheet metal patch over access door cut for restaurant. Final flight to Minnesota ANG Museum at Minneapolis in November 2000.

K25 slide scan. Built 1955 as KC-97G 53-218 for USAF, later redesignated KC-97L, retired to MASDC. In use as Flight 97 Restaurant at McMinnville, OR 1985. Made airworthy again by Hawkins and Powers 1992 and flown to Greybull for storage. Final flight to Minnesota ANG Museum at Minneapolis in November 2000.

Flight 97 was a restaurant at McMinnville, Oregon from 1985 to 1987. N97KC was made airworthy in 1989/1990 and flown to Greybull then subsequently donated to the Minnesota ANG Museum for display at Minneapolis-St Paul in 2000.

Owned by Hawkins & Powers Aviation at the time.

Ex USAF KC-97G 53-218. Converted to KC-97L. Last served 191 ARS, Utah ANG. Seen here stored at Greybull, but still in USAF markings with additional Flight 97 Restaurant logo and titles, from the time it was in use as such from 1986 until 1989. The Flight 97 Restaurant was a two-storey restaurant at the airport at McMinnville, OR, with this C-97 aircraft attached to it as a dining room. It opened for business in Feb 1986, after the C-97 had been flown there from Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ in Sep 1985. The venture was a failure and the restaurant closed in 1987. The C-97 was put up for auction in 1988, but initially remained unsold. It was eventually sold in Dec 1989 and to the Minnesota ANG Museum in 2000.