USAF Boeing YC-14 STOL Transport Prototype
MODEL BY:
Boeing Corporation
Model Scale:
1/100
MODEL ADDED:
N/A
historical significance
First Albuquerque Visit: 1977
Additional Information:
The Boeing YC-14 is a twinjet short take-off and landing (STOL) tactical military transport aircraft. It was Boeing’s candidate for the United States Air Force’s (USAF) Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) competition, which aimed to replace the Lockheed C-130 Hercules as the USAF’s standard STOL tactical transport. Although both the YC-14 and the competing McDonnell Douglas YC-15 were successful, neither aircraft entered production. The AMST project was ended in 1979.
The first Boeing YC-14, 72-1873, flew on August 9, 1976. Two aircraft were built with the second one numbered 72-1874. The competing YC-15 had started flights almost a year earlier. At the completion of testing in the late summer of 1977, the YC-14 prototypes were returned to Boeing. The prototypes were not scrapped as one is stored at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and the other is on display at the nearby Pima Air & Space Museum.
While the Boeing YC-14 was in competition with Douglas YC-15 the transport was at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque New Mexico in June of 1977 for tests and evaluation.
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