Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

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The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Turbine is a large, wide-bodied, four-engined, turboprop cargo aircraft used for transporting outsize cargo components. It was the successor to the Pregnant Guppy, the first of the Guppy aircraft produced by Aero Spacelines. Five were built in two variants, both of which were colloquially referred to as the "Super Guppy". The Super Guppy is the only airplane to have carried a complete S-IVB stage, the third stage of the Saturn V rocket, weighing in at 27,000 lb or 13,500 kg. It did so several times during the Apollo program.

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