Boeing YC-14A, 72-1873 / P1, Pima Air & Space Museum
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Registration: 72-1873
Construction Number: P1
Model Boeing YC-14A
Operator: Pima Air & Space Museum
Airport: Tucson - Pima Air and Space Museum, USA - Arizona
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 13/05/1993
Date Submitted: 10/07/2009
The first of two YC-14As built (the other resides across the road in AMARC). It was designed in response to the USAFs Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) competition, to replace the venerable C-130 Hercules. Although the YC-14 and the other competitor McDonnell Douglas's YC-15 both met or even exceeded the specifications of the contest, the increasing importance of the strategic vs. tactical mission eventually led the Air Force to conclude that they were better off with an updated C-130 in the short term. In the longer term, a much larger aircraft would be developed out of the YC-15, as the C-17 Globemaster III. The AMST project was eventually shut down in 1979.
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