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    Airframe Family: North American F-100 Super Sabre
    Latest Model:F-100D-90-NA Super Sabre
    Last Military Serial:56-3288 USAF
    Construction Number:235-386
    Compressed ID:NA F-100D-90-NA sn 56-3288 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, California

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    Dates

    Event

    From Unknown to 25 August 1958

    Constructed as a F-100D-90-NA by North American at Inglewood, California, USA.

    18 September 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-3288.

    18 September 1958

    To North American Aviation, Inglewood, CA (NAMIC).

    22 September 1958

    To 4440th Air Delivery Group, Langley AFB, VA.

    9 November 1958

    To 493rd TFS, 48th TFW, Brienne AB, France.
    Markings added: FW-228

    20 December 1958

    Base of operations changed.
    Chaumont AB, France.

    26 August 1961

    Base of operations changed.
    RAF Lakenheath, England.

    From August 1968 to After May 1970

    Transferred to 494th TFS, 48th TFW, RAF Lakenheath, England.
    Operated with markings: LT

    20 January 1972

    Transferred to 48th TFW, RAF Lakenheath, England.

    11 March 1972

    Transferred to 110th TFS, 131st TFG, Missouri ANG, Saint. Louis-Lambert IAP, MO.

    From 19 December 1975 to 11 April 1983

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number FE0281.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Transferred to Mather AFB, Sacramento, CA.

    8 September 1984

    Loaned to Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan, CA.
    Collected by McClellan Aviation Museum from Mather AFB.

    To Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    4 October 1989


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1989 photo at McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento, California

    By 1999

    Markings Applied: FW-288
    Repainted in the markings this jet wore while assigned to the 493rd TFS in England.

    1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At the Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB, CA

    26 May 2007


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With an unidentified sticker at McClellan AFB, CA

    11 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    By August 2014

    Markings Applied: 55 777
    Repainted to depict F-100D 55-3777 which was lost in Vietnam in January 1970.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    30 September 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at McClellan, CA, U.S.A.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings by Patrick Martin
    Internet Sources
     F-100 Super Sabre Database by Henk Scharringa
    Friends of the Super Sabre
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
    Max Sabin
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