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> Fast forward to June 2012 when my son was going to the D.C. area and contacted the museum to see if he could see the airplane. They asked for proof of my flight so I found my Air Force flight records and sent him a copy documenting it. Later my phone rang and it was my son saying, okay dad, I’m standing by your navigator’s seat. Attached is a picture he took that day [above].

The August 1975 flight out of

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