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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Stenciled on one of the aft mounts on the 747. Yes, this is really there.



One of my more unusual jobs in AOG was to design tooling to first disassemble and then reassemble one of these aircraft (N905NA) for transport and display at Space Center Houston. Wings were removed so that it could be trailered down a public roadway. Here is where it sits today, with a mockup of the space shuttle Independence resting on top:

I feel a bit robbed that we only have a "mock-up" of the shuttle. Although, since it's sitting outside a mock-up is adequate. You'd think the location of mission control might get the real thing. But we don't have a museum to put it in or anything like that so....