{"id":275139,"date":"2025-08-29T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/last-super-guppy-still-airworthy\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:00:16","slug":"the-last-super-guppy-still-airworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=275139","title":{"rendered":"The Last Super Guppy Still Airworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2025, NASA continues to operate the final Super Guppy cargo aircraft that had been intended for the museum 28 years ago. NASA acquired the Super Guppy (registered N941NA) <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2039544\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/before-beluga-boeing-377-guppies\/\" >as it retired from Airbus service in 1997<\/a><\/span> to replace the previous Super Guppy that NASA retired in 1991. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> and Boeing are able to develop their outsized cargo aircraft (the BelugaXL and Dreamlifter) to carry wings and fuselages of very predictable sizes; NASA sometimes needs to transport one-of-a-kind loads that may require extra space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA took over the final Airbus-operated Super Guppy as it was being sent to the museum in 1997, and it remains in active service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13670,202,6220,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-377-stratocruiser","category-nasa","category-super-guppy","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275140,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275139\/revisions\/275140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}