On this day in aviation history, 62 years ago (December 17, 1963), the first flight of the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter took place. The C-141 was a strategic airlifter flown by the United States Air ...

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 ...

MARIETTA — A bench dedicated to the people that flew, built and maintained the C-141 Starlifter was unveiled at the Aviation History and Technology Center on Saturday.

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 ...

Generally speaking, when one thinks of a telescope one imagines either huge dishes installed on the ground, at high altitude, or immense mirrors placed in key points in orbit around the planet. But ...

A group of dedicated volunteers spent the month of October restoring and affixing newly acquired wing parts to the C-141B “Starlifter” at the Marietta Museum of History’s Aviation Wing. Visitors can ...

Recently, I was introduced to the Museum of Aviation’s C-141C. Learning the history of this plane gave me a whole new appreciation for the word “workhorse.” The C-141 aircraft was a cargo and troop ...

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 ...