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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:YF-16A Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:75-0745 USAF
    Construction Number:MSN 61-1
    Compressed ID:GD YF-16A sn 75-0745 USAF cn MSN 61...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YF-16A.
    The nose carries flags of the different countries involved with the F-16 program.

    13 December 1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 75-0745.

    December 1976

    Transferred to 6516th Test Squadron, 6510th Test Wing, Edwards AFB, CA.

    Circa May 1977


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Edwards AFB.

    1980


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Edwards AFB, CA.

    29 May 1981

    First flight.
    Modified as F-16/101 with a General Electric F101 engine and first flight with this engine was on May 29th, 1981. This engine later led to the GE F110 engine installed from block 30 onwards.

    February 1982

    Transferred to Gentile Air Station, OH.
    Modified to be semi trailer transportable and traveled the country as a recruiting aid.

    By June 1992

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Markings Applied: SOUTH CAROLINA, AF79317
    Marked and painted as South Carolina ANG, 157th TFS, 79-0317.

    Anti-spin parachute support mounts were still on the aircraft. The USAF museum exchanged this aircraft for an F-16 that actually flew in the war as the museum prefers war veterans then early development aircraft. (F16.net).

    Modified in Boyd, Texas in a little machine shop by F-16 crew chief instructors out of Sheppard AFB, Texas.

    26 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At NMUSAF marked as 79-0317

    By September 1996

    Markings Applied: AF, 75745

    13 August 1998


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the National Museum of the USAF

    Circa 1999

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Used as a traveling recruiting exhibit.

    10 May 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Ar Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, as a traveling exhibit during the 100th Anniversary of Flight celebration.

    By November 2009

    Markings Applied: THUNDERBIRDS
    Painted as Thunderbirds aircraft.

    26 June 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA
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    Glenn Chatfield
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