Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (Credit: Douglas Messier)
Shuttle Carrier N911NA is now on display at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at 2001 East Avenue P in Palmdale, Calif. The airpark is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., excluding major holidays. Admission is free.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (Credit: Douglas Messier)
NASA acquired the former Japan Airlines 747-100ASR in 1988 after the space shuttle Challenger accident. It entered service two years later. The aircraft was used in 1991 to transport the space shuttle Endeavour from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (Credit: Douglas Messier)
NASA has loaded the aircraft to the Joe Davies airpark. It will remain a source of spare parts for the space agency’s SOFIA flying observatory, which is based at the adjacent Armstrong Aircraft Operations Facility.
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with a B-52 bomber. (Credit: Douglas Messier)
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