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 ...

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 ...

It has been called the most massive and ambitious airlift operation in human history. During the Gulf War in 1991, a sky-darkening fleet of gigantic cargo aircraft of the 437th Military Airlift Wing ...

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 ...

(Marietta, GA-AP) May 24, 2006 - The C-141 Starlifter transport plane designed and produced by Lockheed-Martin's Marietta plant has been retired after a distinguished 43-year career. The cargo plane's ...

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 ...

The last two C-141 Starlifter transports in the U.S. Air Force inventory were retired last week from the 305th Air Mobility Wing at McGuire AFB, N.J. The Lockheed-built aircraft entered service in ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --The Air Force temporarily grounded its fleet of C-141s to determine why the wing of a C-141 Starlifter collapsed during refueling for a trip to Germany. Military engineers ...

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 ...