INDEX
	Line number	001
	Variant	SGT-201
	Registry	F-BTGV  N211AS
	Engines	Turboprop Allison 501-D22C
	Loading	Swing Nose
	First flight	June 21st, 1983
	From	C-97G 16522  (52-828)
		C-97K 16656 (52-2625)
		377-10-29 15958 (N90942) - Section 45 (unconfirmed)
		Lockheed P-3A Orion nacelles for the Allison engines
		Built by Aero Spacelines at Santa Barbara, CA
		Cerificated as a cmmercial type
		Transferred to NASA: October 23rd, 1997
		Preserved at British Aviation Heritage in Bruntingthorpe 1995 David Walton, owner
		The Super Guppy Restoration foundation
		Scrapped Dec 2020  GJD Services Ltd owner Gary Spoors
		Cockpit preserved at South Wales Aviation Museum (SWAM) is based at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan
		Aero Spacelines built an entirely new fuselage to connect the existing C-97 Stratocruiser parts
		The only parts taken from the C-97s and used for this generation of Guppy, were the nose section with presurized cockpit, wings using the lower section of nacelles, tail surfaces and main landing gear. The nose wheel is from a Boeing 707, rotated 180 degrees. A 23 ft. center section was inserted into the wing
		The condition of the aircraft on 1 March 1990 was as follows:
		F-BTGV: 16160 flight hours (5550 as C-97 and 10610 as Guppy)
		F-BPPA: 14240 flight hours (4520 as C-97 and 9720 as Guppy)
		F-GDSG: 13610 flight hours (9290 as C-97 and 4320 as Guppy)
		F-GEAI: 11950 flight hours (8090 as C-97 and 3860 as Guppy)