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Variant SGT-201
Registry1 N212AS, F-BPPA
Engines Turboprop Allison 501-D22C
Loading Swing Nose
First flight 24-Aug-72
From 16945 (53-0163)  C-97K - Nose Section, Section 46 & 47 and the horizontal stabilizer, 4521 hours
16903  (53-0121) - Wings and vertical stabilizer, 4230 hours
Lockheed P-3A Orion nacelles for the Allison engines
Built by Aero Spacelines at Santa Barbara, CA
Airbus delegation in February 1973 offered to buy this aircraft from ASI
Preserved at Toulouse, France.
Converted to KC-97G
To MASDC, sold to Aero Spacelines.
To Airbus 31 July 1973. Civilian registration F-BPPA. The aircraft logbook opened 21 Aug 1973. The aircraft then totaled 276 hours of flight time
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)