Ken Marshall Images - U.S. Military

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Here are some of Ken Marshall's USAF images, most taken at Prestwick. Sometimes shot in adverse weather conditions - the luck of a spotter at EGPK! Rain gear is usually essential.

53-0270 Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter (17052) USAF - MAC - Minnesota Air National Guard. A simpler time, even as late as 1969, fences were like this.




53-0270 Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter (17052) USAF - MAC - Minnesota Air National Guard. Visiting Prestwick on 23 February 1969. The above images show just one arrival and departure that might otherwise have gone unrecorded for us to enjoy today. Thanks Ken! Remember no long lenses back then!




52-2607 Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter USAF - Pennsylvania ANG. March 1967 at Prestwick.


53-0212 Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter (16994) USAF - Oklahoma ANG. Prestwick, September 1965

52-2759 Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter (16790) USAF - Utah ANG. 24 April 1967 at Prestwick.

52-2732 Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter (16763) USAF - Delaware ANG. Prestwick, September 1965.


52-0926 Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter (16617) USAF does a nice tight 180 in front of Ken, after landing. 24 November 1968 at Prestwick.
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51-5177 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43587) USAF - MATS. Prestwick in April 1965. Retired to MASDC 02 May 1969.

51-0138 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43472) USAF - CAC. Approaching the holding point at Prestwick on 29 September 1967. Retired to MASDC 25 March 1971.



53-0018 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (44313) USAF - North Carolina ANG. Prestwick 15 May 1968. I have included a few images just to give you a "feel" of what we got up to back in the 1960's.


51-5177 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43587) USAF. Prestwick in May of 1965.


51-0096 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43430) USAF - MAC 445 MAW visits Prestwick in November 1968. To MASDC 22 December 1970.

51-5190 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43601) USAF - MAC at the new terminal on the south side, in March 1967. To MASDC 28 June 1969.

52-0940 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43849) USAF - MAC on the north side, 19 July 1966. Note the coal tailings "bings" taken away in later years.

53-0008 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (44303) USAF - MAC departs Prestwick in December 1966.

51-0167 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43501) USAF - MAC. Prestwick 31 July 1966. DBR March AFB 06 June 1971.

51-0177 Douglas C-124C Globemaster (43511) USAF 10 December 1967 with 66-7948 Lockheed C-141A Starlifter (300-6240) USAF - MAC. The old and the new.

67-0008 Lockheed C-141A Starlifter (300-6259) USAF - MAC 438 MAW. Prestwick 09 June 1968. w/o 28 August 1976.

66-7948 Lockheed C-141A Starlifter (300-6240) USAF - MAC. Prestwick 11 February 1968. This aircraft graces the top banner of this section also.

64-0610 Lockheed C-141A Starlifter (300-6023) USAF - MAC. Prestwick 18 July 1968. Retired to AMARC 15 March 1999.

64-0614 Lockheed C-141A Starlifter (300-6027) USAF - MAC. Prestwick 17 August 1969. Retired to AMARC 28 January 2004.

45-940 Douglas C-47 Skytrain (16943/34202) USAF. Climbing out from Prestwick on 11 August 1968.

43-49025 Douglas C-47 Skytrain (14841/26286) USAF 20 TFW. Prestwick 11 August 1968. Later to Guatamalan Air Force as FAG550.


43-48715 Douglas C-47 Skytrain (14531/25976) USAF AMF Europe - 322nd Air Div TAC. At the Prestwick civil terminal, 05 May 1968.


691 Douglas C-47 Skytrain (26592) USAF. 43-49691 departs Prestwick in 19 September 1965 for Royal Libyan Air Force.

127 Douglas C-47 Skytrain (34397) USAF. Not too certain that this is a Ken Marshall shot, looks like a slide Ken took of a print. 127 ex 45-1127 (canx 01 April 1963) came through Prestwick on 20 April 1963. Here it is for the record. My thanks to Tom Macfadyen for the info.



42-93807 Douglas C-47 Skytrain (13760) USAF. At RAF Leuchars, 14 September 1968. To Davis-Monthan by October 1971.

54-0661 Fairchild C-123K Provider (20110) USAF. Shown here at RAF Leuchars on 11 September 1967. Later to N4112A.