C-141 schoolhouse closes at Wright-Pat Published Oct. 15, 2004 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Air Force Reserve Command officials shut down the C-141 Starlifter schoolhouse here Oct. 14.A ceremony marked the closing of the school, officially called the C-141 Formal Training Unit. It was managed by the 445th Airlift Wing. Use of the facility, the only one of its kind in the Air Force, ended because all C-141s will retire by 2006.The school opened in January 2002 for C-141 pilots, loadmasters and flight engineers. The Air Force moved the school here from Altus Air Force Base, Okla., in 2001.Although the school closed, the Reserve unit will still run a flight simulator for training."Eventually the C-141 simulator will be dismantled, and the space made available for the C-5 [Galaxy] simulator," said Maj. Linda Moore, AFRC acquisition adviser.Wing officials said they expect to get the first C-5A in October 2005. C-5s are the largest aircraft in the Air Force. (Courtesy of AFRC News Service)