Please No Running in the Guppy!

This Mini-Guppy is parked at the TIllamook Air Museum, outside of Tillamook, Oregon, just off Hwy 101 on the Oregon Coast. The Mini-Guppy was built (out of old B377 parts) for NASA, to carry things like Saturn rocket boasters. Erickson Air-Crane acquired this plane, and after retiring the plane donated to the Museum. I think it last flew in the mid 1990's. I wish I had seen it flying, like the Boeing "Dream-Lifter" I caught on camera a couple of years ago! It could fly again - The Tillamook Museum specializes in keeping old planes alive. Reminds me of the time I saw a Blackbird SR-71 on a trailer at a gas station on I5 in Oregon. I guess it was on the way to a museum. I laughed a couple of years later when I heard they were bringing some SR-71's back to the flight-line! So Maybe there's a chance for the Mini-Guppy!

The Mini-Guppy was fenced off at the Museum for years, but they've pulled it next to the hanger, and you can take a self-guided tour through the plane. Just remember - Please don't run in the Guppy!
Note - The Tillamook Air Museum is in a World War II Blimp Hanger - that dwarfs the Mini-Guppy. I ended the video with a quick shot in the doors of the hanger!
See the wikipedia entry on the Mini-Guppy for more about the plane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_spacelines_Mini_Guppy and http://www.tillamookair.com for more on the museum.

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[coyoteco]

+45° 25' 20.64", -123° 48' 4.71"

mid-Northern Oregon Coast, USA

[PorkeezOnWoW]

i never knew u were allowed in it great video

[coyoteco]

@PorkeezOnWoW

Thanks! You didn't used to be - but you can now. Definitely worth the two bucks!

[MrCriticOfAll]

Man you have a good eye with the camera,some of those shot were great.Thanks for uploading this,I love it.I subbed pls sub back.Cheers and thanks again.

[Lazerbrainz2k3]

Just saw one taking off out of PHL this very afternoon! Probably carrying another cargo from Boeing (another V-22 fuselage?). Such a bizzare aircraft.

[IrritatedBear]

had a guppy at bruntingthorpe in the UK went inside whilst i was on camp

[2Bibleppl]

No disrespect but it looks like they were trying to build a blimp and accidently made an airplane. Nice plane though, good video detail.

[MrHenstep1]

@murphjy NASA has one flying still.

[murphjy]

Two months ago while driving I would swear I saw a Guppy leaving Fort Campbell in Kentucky. I see modern transports flying in and out of there routinely. And thats what I thought it was at first until I saw the profile..hard to mistake!!! I was on the highway, and slowed to make sure I wasn't seeing things. Clouds quickly covered it up. Does anyone know who's still operating these?

[MrImApig]

Super Guppy: nice piece of engineering! :-)

[amshg21]

1:09 there's a freakin bird nest inside the plain ... LOL !

[unbatedKILLER19]

I was there exactly 7/28/11

[TheDutchPaul]

@coyoteco Is this at the Tillamook airplane museum?