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When I joined the Canadian Forces my first introduction to the CC-137 was my flight on SF715, 5 Nov 1971, from CFB Trenton to CFB Ottawa and on to CFB Greenwood to report to CFB Cornwallis for my Basic Recruit Training. I actually logged the flight in my Private Pilot's Log Book as a passenger flight.  Total flight time was logged as 1.8 hours. However I did not log the aircraft tail number.

Over the years in the Canadian Forces I logged many hours in the CC-137 including  the flight from Trenton to Lahr on 14 Nov 1973, (7 hours)  and Lahr to Cairo on 15 Nov 1973, (4 hours). On this flight there was the flight crew and six of us accompanying 3 vehicles and trailers going on my first UN tour (Op Danaca) into Egypt in Nov 1973. In my log I have Capt Olsen as the pilot and Capt Dodd as the co-pilot. The flight crew let us into the cockpit and I spent several hours of the flight in the cockpit learning about the Loran C navigation and even got to fly the aircraft. I still remember that flight today.

Unfortunately after Aug 1977 I stopped logging flights into my log book therefore I have no idea of the number of hours I logged as a passenger or tech aboard the various CF aircraft - Big Mistake in hindsight!

From Aug 1992 to Sept 1994, I was employed at Boeing/Herc Maintenance as a Communications and Radar Systems Technician at 8 Wing Trenton. Here I helped maintain the Boeings and the last Boeing I worked on may have been the same Boeing that I had flown in when I first joined up.

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Specifications (707-347C) ^[Wikipedia]

The 707-347C is the military version of the 707-320

General characteristics
Crew: 3 
Capacity: 170 passengers 
Payload: 41,000 kg (90,000 lb) 
Length: 46.61 m (152 ft 11 in)
Wingspan:  44.42 m (145 ft 9 in)
Height:  12.93 m ( 42 ft 5 in)
Wing area:  280 m²  (3,010 ft²)
Empty weight:  kg (lb) 
Max takeoff weight:  148,000 kg  (327,000 lb)
Powerplant: 4× Pratt & Whitney JT3D-7 turbofans, 19,700 lb (87.6 kN) each 

Performance
Cruise speed:  994 km/h (537 knots, 618 mph) 
Range: 12,290 km (6,636 nm, 7,638 mi) 
Service ceiling:  12,000 m (39,000 ft)

CC-137 Configurations^{[Royal Canadian Air Force]}

To enable 437 Squadron to perform their goals and accomplish their daily peacetime operations, several Aircraft configurations were developed.

Passenger - normally 170 seated but 212 may be installed by reducing seat spacing. More passengers may be carried in a critical situation such as the Pakistan evacuation where 241 were accommodated.

VIP - a stateroom was used for Heads of State and could seat 8 with 115 seats aft of the stateroom. A mini-capsule was available for senior officials and could accommodate 6 passengers with 155 high density seats aft.

Mixed configuration - three pallets of cargo forward weighing 25,00 pounds/12,500 Kg with 112 seats aft.

Cargo - up to 90,000 pounds/42,000 Kg over 2500 nautical miles/4000Km.

Medical evacuation - 60 litters plus 45 seats for support personnel.

Air refueling - along with the fuel itself, 50 passengers and 25,000 pounds/12,500 Kg of support equipment can be carried. 

Configuration times varied from 4-20 hours depending on the previous configuration and the availability of personnel. No commercial carrier in the world had the capability of these varied configurations.

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To see the operational history of an aircraft, click on its CAF/CF serial number.