Originally Posted by JohnBurke

And then put them in storage at Marana. I flew them out when they were purchased and put back into service with a different carrier.

Only two of them were in passenger configuration; the others were freighters. The two in passenger configuration had ended their service lives as troop transports, and when I picked up the airplanes from storage, troops had written notes to the company and the flight attendants on the seat backs and on all the pull down window shades. The airplane was autographed throughout by troops on their way home. Kind of neat.

I was given the flight manual to take home as a sort of souvineer, and I grabbed a pax briefing card and a blanket from the overhead bin, because it was all getting tossed. Schmaltzy stuff, but little momentos along the way.