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The 452nd Air Mobility Wing crew from March ARB, California, made the last C-141 flight from the South Pole on 4 February, completing another chapter in the career of the StarLifter. Since 1966, when the StarLifter was the first jet engine aircraft to land at the South Pole, C-141 crews have flown personnel and equipment to Antarctica to support National Science Foundation research efforts. This season, more than 2.7 million pounds of cargo and approximately 3,000 passengers were transported to support Operation Deep Freeze. Reserve crews have flown more than 200 perfect-record missions a year to Antarctica—no accidents and no aircraft or crew were left on the ice.
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