Recently, I was introduced to the Museum of Aviation’s C-141C. Learning the history of this plane gave me a whole new appreciation for the word “workhorse.” The C-141 aircraft was a cargo and troop ...
A group of dedicated volunteers spent the month of October restoring and affixing newly acquired wing parts to the C-141B “Starlifter” at the Marietta Museum of History’s Aviation Wing. Visitors can ...
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Lockheed C-141 Starlifter

It has been called the most massive and ambitious airlift operation in human history. During the Gulf War in 1991, a sky-darkening fleet of gigantic cargo aircraft of the 437th Military Airlift Wing ...
On display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio are many notable aircraft including Air Force VC-137C SAM 26000 “Air Force One,” which brought President John F. Kennedy’s body ...
A seven-and-a-half-hour flight to the most isolated outpost on the planet is a tough mission. But once the Air Force C-141 Starlifter dropped its cargo into the bitterly cold Antarctic night, the ...
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Air Force retired the last Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) C-141 StarLifter airlifter to the National ...
The last two C-141 Starlifter transports in the U.S. Air Force inventory were retired last week from the 305th Air Mobility Wing at McGuire AFB, N.J. The Lockheed-built aircraft entered service in ...
(Marietta, GA-AP) May 24, 2006 - The C-141 Starlifter transport plane designed and produced by Lockheed-Martin's Marietta plant has been retired after a distinguished 43-year career. The cargo plane's ...