Airborne observatory
Airplane-based observatories

Airborne observatory

Section Title: Airplane-based observatories
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Observatory	Aircraft	Tail#	In-service	Out-of-service	Notes

NASA Galileo Airborne Observatory	Convair 990	N711NA	1965	1973	Destroyed in a mid-air collision

NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO)	-	Lockheed C-141A Starlifter	N714NA	1974	1995	Replaced Galileo, replaced by SOFIA

NASA-DLR Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)	-	Boeing 747	N747NA	2010	in-service	Replaced KAO

Sentence(s)

The Kuiper Airborne Observatory, first flown in 1974, was carried on a C-141A.

final_sentence: The Kuiper Airborne Observatory, first flown in 1974, was carried on a C-141A.