Aircraft Photo of HB-ILY | Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter | AirHistory.net #324134
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:HB-ILY
Aircraft Original Type:Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter (367)
Aircraft Generic Type:Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter (367)
Aircraft Version:Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter
C/n (msn):16657
Location
City / Area:Tucson / Pima Museum [ Off-Airport ]Map
Region / Country:Arizona, United States
Collection:Pima Air and Space Museum
 
Photo Date:11 February 2008
Photo by:Kas van Zonneveld
Photo ID: 324134
Photo Comment

Built as a KC-97G and delivered to the USAF around 1952 as 52-2626. Converted to C-97G, marked as 0-22626 and put on display. Registered HB-ILY and listed as owned by the International Red Cross/Belair Air Lines in March 1969. Used for famine relief operation Biafra (Nigeria) between March 1969 and March 1970. Assigned to Davis-Monthan for storage and transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CH0439. Later to Pima, where it was restored. The vertical stabilizer was replaced with the one from 52-2759.

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