Lockheed C-141C
Starlifter Hanoi Taxi
The C-141 named Hanoi Taxi (now a "C"
model) departed the 445th Airlift Wing on Saturday, 6 May 2006,
and made its final landing at the National Air Force Museum, located
next to Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.
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Photo by Ron Bosley
The Hanoi Taxi was the first of 18 C-141s that
picked up 591 POWs in "Operation Homecoming." The Hanoi
Taxi landed at Gia Lamb Airport on Feb. 12, 1973, then carried
40 POWs to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines and later back
to the United States.
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