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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:F-16N Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:163271 USN
    Construction Number:3M-4
    Compressed ID:GD F-16N sn 163271 USN cn 3M-4
    Latest Owner or Location:Pacific Coast Air Museum, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16N Block 30B.

    Circa 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-1372.
    It is likely the USAF serial number was only assigned to facilitate the transfer of the airframe to the Navy.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163271 as a F-16N.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Placed on display with Pacific Coast Air Museum, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.
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    By 13 September 2010

    Markings Applied: 44

    13 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    20 July 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    20 July 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    24 September 2016


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Wings over Wine Country Air Show in Sonoma, California.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
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