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    Airframe Family: Short SC-7 Skyvan / SD3 / 330 / 360 / C-23 Sherpa
    Latest Model:C-23A Sherpa
    Last Military Serial:84-0468 US
    Construction Number:SH.3115
    Last Civil Registration:N175Z
    Compressed ID:Short C-23A sn 84-0468 US cn SH.311...
    Latest Owner or Location:Redding Municipal Airport, Redding, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-23A.

    25 May 1985


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: Seen at the 1985 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete

    1 August 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 84-0468 and operated with these markings: Greenham Common.

    Transferred to 10th Military Airlift Squadron-608th Military Airlift Group.

    August 1988


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: USAFE C23 84-0468 seen at Alconbury, UK, in August 1988

    25 March 1991

    To US Forest Service, Boise, ID with new c/r N175Z.

    To Redding Municipal Airport, Redding, CA.
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    Operated as fire service #75.

    17 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the CDF base in Redding, California.

    15 July 2018


    Photographer: Tim Crippin
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Interagency Fire Center
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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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