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    Airframe Family: Boeing B377 / C-97 Stratofreighter
    Latest Model:KC-97G-24-BO Stratofreighter
    Last Military Serial:52-2604 USAF
    Construction Number:16635
    Last Civil Registration:N97GX
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-97G-24-BO sn 52-2604 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:IX Exposition Center, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-97G-24-BO by Boeing at Seattle, Washington, USA.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-2604.

    Transferred to 145th ARS, Ohio ANG.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CH610.

    11 August 1986

    To Dross Metals Inc, Tucson, AZ with new c/r N97GX.

    From 1986 to 2000

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Dross Metals (DMI), Tucson, AZ.
    Stored unconverted.
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    From Unknown to March 2017

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Incorrect. Ther aircraft survived, complete, inside DMI until March 2017 when it was dismantled for transportation to Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Throughout the 1990s and up to the time it was dismantled, it was fitted with the tail fin (folded flat) from 52-0841. The actual tail fin from 54-2604 was fitted to 53-0298 for display at Warner Robbins AFB, Georgia.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

    15 January 1997

    To DMI, Tucson, AZ keeping c/r N97GX.

    25 June 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: KC-97L 52-2604 (CH610) in the yard of ARM/ DMI back in 2002. Pleased to see it has survived. N97GX is at Cleveland, Ohio.

    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    19 March 2013

    Civil registration, N97GX, cancelled.

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    To IX Exposition Center, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cleveland, OH.
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    22 August 2022


    Photographer: Steven Dennis
    Notes: At the International Exposition Center, Cleveland, OH

    22 August 2022


    Photographer: Steven Dennis
    Notes: At the International Exposition Center, Cleveland, OH

    14 October 2024


    Photographer: Michael Melinis
    Notes: MASDC as CH610. Markings on left side of cockpit, defaced of Model and AF Serial No.

    14 October 2024


    Photographer: Michael Melinis
    Notes: Static display on Cleveland IX Center grounds, south end of Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Cleveland Ohio
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