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The Travis AFB Heritage Center C-140A Jetstar located in Fairfield CA.
has been declared excess and will be scrapped if it is not transferred to another approved/vetted USAF museum. Parts are also available from the aircraft for other approved/vetted museums.

contact Rick Shea at the Travis AFB Heritage Center 707-424-5883
or if you want the whole aircraft contact USAF Museum, mark.miller@us.af.mil

More info and pictures also available from me, but I can't approve anything.
Sadly, the USAF is downsizing their aircraft collections on display. This is happening at many USAF Museums and Heritage Centers. Can't save them all, but maybe save some pieces from them.

History of aircraft:
Serial number 59-5958
Construction number 5010
It was delivered to the Air Force late in 1961. The construction number suggests it was the 10th production aircraft although there were 2 prototypes so it could be said it was the 12th JetStar built and the first for the Air Force.
It was assigned to 1867FCS (Facilities Checking Squadron) based at Clark AB in the Philippines. It was used for inspecting NAVAIDS throughout Southeast Asia until about September 1975. Having returned to the US it was with 1866FCS at Richards-Gebaur AFB, Mo, and in 1977 the squadron moved to Scott AFB, Il. The aircraft was one of 4 based at Scott until around 1988.
During the hostilities in Vietnam, 59-5958 and others were painted in the camo scheme which it then kept throughout its working life. The JetStars were replaced around 1988 with another jet designed for executive use, the Hawker Siddeley HS.125, designated C-29A. Flight Checking duties at some point passed to the FAA (the Hawkers were repainted into FAA colors) and these duties are today carried out with Bombardier Challenger and Learjet aircraft.

If no qualified museum comes forward then
The excess aircraft will be offered for sale at GSA surplus sales just like the recent C-119 and C-123 at Edwards. Before they are offered, they will be certified for
safety- no ejection seats, pressurized bottles etc and armament - no weapons, ordnance.

They will not be cut up before sale. Although some parts may be removed if they can be used on other museum aircraft. I believe the buyer has a limited time to remove aircraft from site. Usually they are worth more scrap metal value then the cost to move them. I hope someone gets them that will give them a good new home.

I saw a flyable Jetstream in Las Vegas lst December 8th. It was N72GW and owned by First Guaranty Bank in Hammond, Louisiana. Whatever reason they are able to justify operating a Jetstream II, it may make sense for them to buy another and get it flying. They may be able to buy it for parts, to keep the other going. I have a picture of it and can email to anyone that would like to see N72GW. (Don't have a photobucket account.)

An acquaintance had two...the last I heard, one of which was being sold in France.

His primary aircraft is N700RM a JetStar II.

https://flightaware.com/photos/view/600 ... f0d38cc5ac

As a kid, I got to go aboard an 89th VC-140 when one carrying Astronaut Ed White stopped at the base for lunch and fuel shortly after his Gemini spacewalk.
I've loved them ever since.

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I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

People are so cruel to let me see Lockheeds that are getting ready to be sold or scrapped. It gives me too many ideas that get me in trouble.

[quote="ALOHADAVE"]If no qualified museum comes forward then
The excess aircraft will be offered for sale at GSA surplus sales just like the recent C-119 and C-123 at Edwards. Before they are offered, they will be certified for
safety- no ejection seats, pressurized bottles etc and armament - no weapons, ordnance.


So how does one become a qualified museum.

Kevin

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Kevin Orr
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As I understand it
A qualified museum per Air Force regulations means:
another Air Force or military service museum or
a private museum that has at least one paid employee and
has been vetted, which means that someone from the the USAF Museum at Dayton has visited (at the private museums expense) the site of the museum and
a plan for the long term display and care of the aircraft has been approved.
if you have any questions concerning this please contact USAF Museum, mark.miller@us.af.mil or the POC for the Travis AFB Heritage Center

If you are really interested, I will help. I just want to save these aircraft