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==Variants== [[File:Short C-23B+ Sherpa (SD-360) (6342607014) (2).jpg|thumb|Sherpa C-23B+ Sherpa]] ;C-23A Sherpa: Twin-engine transport aircraft for the U.S. Air Force based on the Short 330-UTT; it was fitted with a strengthened cabin floor with a roller conveyor system, plus a forward cargo door on the port side of the fuselage, equipped with a hydraulically operated full-width rear cargo door/ramp; 18 built. ;C-23B Sherpa: Twin-engine transport aircraft for the US Army National Guard, similar to the C-23A, but with cabin windows, stronger landing-gear, inward-opening paratroop doors at the rear of the fuselage and an air-operable two-section cargo ramp; 16 built.<ref name="scramble">{{cite magazine|magazine=Scramble Magazine|publisher=Dutch Aviation Society|issue=427|date=December 2014|title=Whatever happened to .. C-23 Sherpa|pages=150β157|issn=0927-3417}}</ref> ;C-23B+ Super Sherpa: Short 360 aircraft purchased as used aircraft by the U.S. Army and modified by the West Virginia Air Center (WVAC) for the replacement of the rear fuselage of the Short 360, with its single tall fin, with the twin tail and rear loading ramp of the Short Sherpa.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/c-23.htm |title=C-23 Sherpa |work=GlobalSecurity.org |access-date=July 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815081447/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/c-23.htm |archive-date=15 August 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> 28 civil aircraft were modified.<ref name="scramble"/> ;C-23C :Both C-23B and C-23B+ with flightdeck avionic upgrade under the "Avionics System Cockpit Upgrade" program, 43 modified.<ref name="scramble"/> ;C-23D :C-23C with upgraded avionics under the "Safety Avionics Modification" program from 2010, program was cancelled and only four aircraft were modified.<ref name="scramble"/>
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