{"id":1741,"date":"2012-04-21T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2012-04-21T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T22:24:48","slug":"planespotting-shuttle-carrier-aircraft-n911na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2012\/04\/21\/planespotting-shuttle-carrier-aircraft-n911na\/","title":{"rendered":"Planespotting: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft N911NA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture I took yesterday at the\u00a0Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1743\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1743 \" title=\"IMG_7015\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7015-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7015-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7015-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shuttle Carrier Aircraft  N911NA. \u00a9 Reinhard Kargl 2012. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is one of the two existing <a title=\"Shuttle Carrier Aircraft\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft\" target=\"_blank\">Shuttle Carrier Aircaft (SCA)<\/a>. This one is aircraft N911NA.\u00a0The other SCA (N905NA) was spotted by a friend at Washington Dulles Airport the next morning, with Space Shuttle Discovery mounted on top. (Discovery is being delivered to the Smithsonian Air &amp; Space Museum. N911NA is now officially retired at Dryden. It will be used as a &#8220;donor&#8221; for spare parts for <a title=\"SOFIA\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SOFIA\" target=\"_blank\">SOFIA<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3449\">A Space Poster With Mysterious Origins<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3428\">Did Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard Ever Work On Mount Wilson?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3340\">RIP James Arthur Lovell Jr. (March 25, 1928 \u2013 August 7, 2025)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3307\">The Moon Voyagers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3208\">Size Comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture I took yesterday at the\u00a0Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. This is one of the two existing Shuttle Carrier Aircaft (SCA). This one is aircraft N911NA.\u00a0The other SCA (N905NA) was spotted by a friend at Washington Dulles Airport the next morning, with Space Shuttle Discovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-english","category-spaceflight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}