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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter / T-38 Talon / Canadair CF-116
    Latest Model:T-38A-25-NO Talon
    Last Military Serial:60-0551 USAF
    Construction Number:N.5124
    Compressed ID:Northrop T-38A-25-NO sn 60-0551 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian - National Air and Space Museum, Washington, District of Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-38A-25-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    Circa 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 60-0551.
    Used by Jacqueline Cochran to set several womensspeed records.

    Markings Applied: Engineering Flight Test Sacramento

    May 1975


    Photographer: Peter B Lewis
    Notes: At McClellan AFB

    Placed on display with McClellan AFB, CA.

    1999


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

    In the inventory of USAF Museum, Dayton, OH.

    2009

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD.
    View the Location Dossier

    2022

    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
    View the Location Dossier

    14 May 2022


    Photographer: Jim Preston
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