C-141 STARLIFTER, KEEPERS OF THE HANOI TAXI PATCH. POW/MIA, USAF
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A Great Find... Here is a New Patch For The "Keepers of The Hanoi Taxi", the 445th Airlift Wing, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. Hanoi Taxi is a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter strategic airlift aircraft (serial number 66-0177) that was in service with the United States Air Force and became famous for bringing back the first returned prisoners of war in Operation Homecoming . This aircraft, which was delivered to the Air Force in 1967, was the last C-141 to be withdrawn from service after a career of almost 40 years, as the last of the fleet was retired in 2006 as sufficient C-17 Globemaster III aircraft became available in the regular Air Force to allow C-141s still serving with Air Force Reserve units to be replaced by the C-5 Galaxy aircraft being seconded from the regular Air Force. The Hanoi Taxi is currently housed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force , near Dayton, Ohio . Vietnam War Service For much of the late 1960s and early 1970s, 66-0177 flew out of Norton Air Force Base , San Bernardino, California with the 63rd Military Airlift Wing (MAW) . The Hanoi Taxi flew Bob Hope to USO shows in South Vietnam.The Hanoi Taxi was used in 1973, in the final days of the Vietnam War , to repatriate American POWs from North Vietnam . Arizona Senator John McCain was one of the POWs who flew home on the Hanoi Taxi . The Hanoi
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