On the North side of Mehrabad airport, connected with a taxiway that also runs past the maintenance complex, is the so-called aerospace exhibition. This Caribou is thought to be one of two used in support of the US projects Dark Gene and IBEX which was basically spying on the Soviet Union from Iran. The C-7 was used to supply the forward deployed operatives at their listening posts.

Aircraft hit in a Viet Cong rocket attack on April 15, 1968 during the Vietnam War.

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Taken on strength by the US Army in 1962 as a CV-2B, this Caribou was deployed to Vietnam in 1965 where its STOL capabilities were put to good use. In 1967 all fixed-wing Army aircraft were taken over by the USAF, this aircraft now designated as a C-7A being assigned to the 457th TAS at Cam Rahn, S Vietnam, later to the 536th TAS. Lonaed to Air America as 193, it flew in Laos. In 1972 it was relegated to AFRes service at Maxwell AFB, AL then Dobbins ARB, GA before retirement and ferry flight to the USAFM in May 1983

USAF C-7B 62-4182 was moved to the Western International Aviation scrapyard at Davis-Monthan in Sep 1986. It was registered to Newcal Aviation as N60NC on 5 Sep 1986, but this registration was never applied, and the aircraft did not leave the Western scrapyard until 30 Sep 2020 when it was moved from the Western International scrapyard to a compound at the Pima Air & Space Museum, reportedly for a rebuild using parts from 62-4150/N92NC c/n 86 and 63-9739/N80NC c/n 186. It was again registered, now as N68NC, on 15 Jun 2021, but this registration too was never applied to the aircraft. This Caribou was still stored at the museum at the time of upload, with no sign of any rebuild.

700 TAS 94 TAW AFRES. Previousy US Army, transferred to USAF 1967-01 for Operation Red Leaf. Later sold to Spanish Air Force.

Delivered in 1961. Preserved at Travis AFB, CA from 1991,

Delivered to the US Army as 61-2396 in 1962. Sold as N9011R in 1986. Cancelled as exported to Mozambique in 1993. Noted derelict at Komatipoort, South Africa in 1996. Used as an advertising billboard at the side of the N4 road there in 2019.

Photographer Don Spering - 2/1962 delivered to U.S.Army , 4/1964 leased to air America as 389, 1/1/1967 trasferred from U.S.Army to USAF, 6/1974 end of lease to Air America, 10/1980 returned to U.S.Army as O-02389, 4/1992 sold and registered N614ST

Photographer Don Spering - Delivered to US Army, assigned to Army Aviation School, Ft. Rucker, AL. - To USAF as C-7A under Operation Red Leaf. - To Spanish Air Force as T.9-13, coded 353-13. 11/86: WFU. - 11/93: to civil as N555NC

Photographer L.B. Sides - To US Army, assigned to Army Aviation School.Transferred January 1967 to USAF for Operation Red Leaf. MAP transfer to Spanish AF as T.9-23 in June 1982. Preserved at Villanubla AB.

Photographer unknown - delivered 5 January 1962 to US Army, transferred January 1967 to USAF for Operation Red Leaf. MAP transfer to Spanish AF October 1981 as T.9-17. - To US civil registry November 1985 as N88NC.

On celebrity row. Delivered to the US Army in 1963. To the USAF in 1967. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB in 1983. Sold in 1986 and moved to the Western International yard. Registered to Newcal Aviation as N60NC but remained in the yard. Moved to the Pima Air and Space Museum in 2020.

To T.9-26/Spanish Air Force on 9 Sep 1982; to N666NC/New Cal Aviation in Feb 1988. Photo by Thomas Hildreth.

Delivered to the US Army as 57-3083 in 1959. Transferred to the USAF in 1967 then back to the US Army in 1975. Preserved at Fort Bragg from 1986.

Ex Spanish Air Force. Located at the cafeteria Terraza El Avion.