C-9 Nightingale USAFDouglas C 9 Skytrain USAF airplane model. The Douglas C 9 Skytrain is a twin engine, T tailed, medium range, swept wing jet aircraft used primarily for Air Mobility Command's aeromedical evacuation mission. The Nightingale is a modified version of the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corporation's DC 9. It is the only aircraft in the inventory specifically designed for the movement of litter and ambulatory patients. The C 9A's airlift capability to carry 40

In the first of four flights made on that day

performance is enhanced

1/72 scale

when the last 727 was delivered

but the order was later canceled in favor of the B-36

400-hp Wright 972TC-18DA-3 Turbo-Compound engines

resulting in 9

Robert Goddard in the United States

000 pound (11

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all passenger version

Until its launch on September 5