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   From: bshatzerNO@comcast.net   
      
   Gatt wrote:   
      
   > "Bill Shatzer"  wrote in message   
   > news:TYednWFTKPFchOHbnZ2dnUVZ_sOknZ2d@comcast.com...   
      
   >>Dunno.  The delivery 747 seems to be marked "NASA", not "Evergreen".   
      
   > Previously, Evergreen 747s were marked "PAN AM" or "Northwest Orient."   
      
   > I have an original inflight photo of the Enterprise test flight. I'll have   
   > to see if I can see the tail number and verify that it's 905NA.  NASA does   
   > indeed own N905NA and N911NA, but according to Wiki it was manufactured for   
   > American Airlines.   
      
   Yeah, both of NASA's 747 shuttle transporters were purchased used from   
   airlines.   
      
   The other NASA 747 transporter is an ex-Japan Air Lines plane.   
      
   > There's an old transport sitting out front of the museum.   I've always   
   > wondered what would happen if they dusted it for drugs.  Air America!   
      
   I suspect you'd get a "hit" dusting just about any airliner in the   
   world. And, likely a goodly portion of the civil aviation fleet.   
      
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