How many C/KC-97 type aircraft are still around?

[ZRX61]

There's one at Fox Field/Lancaster ca.

[Nathan]

There are still a couple Kc-97's in the AZ boneyard. More accurately in a few of the scrap yards. Two or three still there as of Mike's post on his desert road trip out west.

[WallyB]

Perhaps the creator of that list needs to take another look. It shows one at the Florence Air Museum. That place has been closed for what, 15 years?

Perhaps the creator of the list needs more updates from contributors .

52-2624 has been reported disassembled with the CAF at Midland, but I can find no confirmation.

[wwrw2007]

There's two for sure in Wisconsin one in Dodgeville at the Don Q Inn and one at Volk Field. Also March Air Musem in Riverside has one. I'll try to upload pics of the one at March and the Don Q tonight.

[wingman1]

Do aneyone know which one was at the airshow in El-Paso in Oct,1990?

i was wanting to know for sure which one i saw in person, back then?

thanks in advance.

[cooper9411]

One at Air Force Museum, I delivered it there.
I took a couple more to DM. Every time that I drink a Coors Light I wonder

Quit 'yer braggin

[Pogmusic]

One at the Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, GA
http://www.museumofaviation.org/KC97.php

[M.P.]

The one in Dodgeville at the Don Q Inn:
http://www.donqinn.net

[L. Thompson]

My father had 1,928 hours in KC-97s as a boom operator between 10 November 1952 and 28 August 1957 while based at March Field. Twenty-three days later (19 September 1957) he was at Castle flying in KC-135's. I wish I could remember the KC-97 days but I was only a little over 2 years old when we moved from Riverside to Merced, CA.

Of all the serials I have gleaned from his logbooks I have not confirmed any surviving airframes among them. If anyone knows of one mentioned below, even a partial airframe, I'd be interested.

The earliest serial I find in his logbooks was KC-97E-40-BO, 51-205. He had multiple missions in every one of the Boeings between serial 51-271 and 51-289. except I find nothing entered for ship 51-276. I found missions in many logs for the serials 52-2749 thru 52-2758 inclusive, all G-28 models. Several missions in an odd-duck KC-97F-18-BO, 51-395. The newest (or latest) serial in the books I found was KC-97G, 53-117, No others recorded in the 53-xxx series but his crew was in this one often after July of 1955.

Photo below is KC-97F-60-BO, 51-281 (c/n 16348) probably taken on 23 January 1953 when a 5-ship formation XC of KC-97s left March Field for flight to Reno, Nevada and back, with some local instrument practice. He was in 51-281 a lot including his second to last KC-97 mission on 27 Aug 1957.

Unrelated to the survivors, but interesting...The other two pics had no notes so I don't know any details or dates. I wonder if the broken booms were a very common occurrence?

[Dan K]

There's two for sure in Wisconsin one in Dodgeville at the Don Q Inn and one at Volk Field...

52-0905 at Volk Field.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/356 ... 2fe3d4.jpg

[JohnB]

52-2624 has been reported disassembled with the CAF at Midland, but I can find no confirmation.

Perhaps that was the source of half of Gary's Stratolina?