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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editor’s note: The author served in the Air Force from 1972-1978 as a Military Airlift Command pilot (Now Air Mobility Command) flying the four-engine C-141 Starlifter. He wrote this story in 1994 for ...
With unmatched power and range, the C-141 Starlifter redefined military logistics. From massive cargo hauls to life-risking missions, it pushed the limits of what a transport jet could do—and then ...
After graduating from CU, William “Bill” Wardwell (Econ’68) was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force for 23 years, serving in the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm. He writes that he flew the Lockheed C ...
MARIETTA — Ambassador Andrew Young was a special guest Wednesday at Marietta’s Aviation Museum as a group of volunteers gathered to celebrate the completion of the restoration of a long-retired ...
MARIETTA - The Aviation Wing of the Marietta Museum of History is putting the finishing touches on one of its newer exhibits. For about a year, a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter has called the Aviation Wing ...