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66-0177_1984-02_MUC_1600_AR

Photo taken by Andreas Rink, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

München-Riem
February 1984

66-0177 / 60177
Lockheed C-141B Starlifter
300-6203
United States Air Force (USAF)

The "Hanoi Taxi" at Riem! There seems to be a USAF VC-137 in the background on the right.

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Richard Vandervord:
In February 1973 this was the first aircraft to land in Hanoi to collect and repatriate American POWs, earning it the nickname "Hanoi Taxi". Around 1980 it underwent the stretch converting it to C-141B status. In May 2006 it gained further distinction by carrying out the final flight of a Starlifter in USAF service when delivered to Wright-Patterson for the NMUSAF.

Joe Baugher’s entry on 66-0177 from crouze.com:
0177(MSN 300-6203) 4/4/67: TOS USAF and assigned to the 63rd Military Airlift Wing, Norton AFB, CA. Was first aircraft to touch down in Hanoi to bring POWs home Feb 12, 1973. Named "Hanoi Taxi". The Hanoi Taxi flew two missions into Hanoi, carrying out 78 POWs and two civilian returnees to the Philippines, and four missions from the Philippines to the United States, carrying 76 ex-POWs.
Ca 1981. Converted to C-141B. Named "City of San Bernadino" with 63rd MAW in Mar 1988.
1994: 89th Airlift Squadron, 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
Circa 1997: Converted to C-141C.
Mar 12, 1998, carried 50 former POWs to festivities in Operation Homecoming Silver Anniversary.
2002: Received its final programmed depot maintenance, and it was repainted as it appeared when it went to Hanoi in 1973 -- except for the Red Cross. It flew in these markings for the next four years.
May 2004: Maj. Gen. Edward J. Mechenbier, himself a POW repatriated from Vietnam, flew it back to Vietnam to repatriate the remains of two American service members killed in action.
2005: Used to help evacuate people affected by Hurricane Katrina.
5/6/06: Made the last flight of a C-141 in USAF service when it landed at the Air Force Museum.
Handed over to USAFM May 6, 2006.
www.crouze.com/baugher/usaf_serials/1966.html

More 66-0177 information, photos and links here:
c141heaven.info/dotcom/pic_66_0177.php

66-0177 as a C-141A at Norton AFB ca. 1967 (all silver):
www.flickr.com/photos/alfblume/47084954261

U.S. service members, now officially former Prisoners of War, cheer as the Lockheed C-141A Starlifter they are on lifts off from Gia Lam Airport, near Hanoi, North Vietnam on 12 February 1973:
www.flickr.com/photos/lockheedmartin/39333476205

66-0177 landing at Mildenhall (MHZ) in August 1988 (in camouflage):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/0/0/1/0549100.jpg

66-0177 as a C-141C at McDill AFB, FL, in 2004:
www.flickr.com/photos/151622241@N05/52166204872

Great shot of 66-0177 lifting off in October 2004:
www.flickr.com/photos/habujet/14555714965

66-0177 preserved at National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in July 2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/i9i_photography/28647880026

Scan from slide (unknown brand).

Taken on: February 1, 1984

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