NASA Super Guppy

All 4 Super Guppies survive – but only the one above is airworthy

Five Super Guppies were built, one went to NASA and that was retired to the Pima Museum. Another four were built for Aerospacelines/Airbus component transport, and three of these have been retired, 01 is at Bruntingthorp, 02 at Toulouse, 03 in Germany and 04 was sold to NASA to replace their first one and that is the one still in service.

The CL44 Guppy was being worked on at Bournemouth but with the financial demise of its owner it must surely be attracting the attention of the scrapman.

Richard

There is one at Bruntingthorpe.

All 4 Super Guppies survive – but only the one above is airworthy

A Guppy still flying in Europe would help transport problems for a lot of museums its a shame they where decommissioned and I think broken up although there was I think last year still a CL 44 04 mini cargo guppy still in existence and flying. A bit like the old Carvairs at least one should have been preserved even if not in flying order but I am sure one could probably have paid for itself. Look what the Russians have done with their ex military transports back in the air and paying for themselves.

Nice pictures and very nice to see still in use when you think how old the basic aircraft it is built on is.

Mike E

Nice. Thanks for sharing.