Dates

Event

Constructed as an A-10A.

15 June 1983

First flight.

30 June 1983

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 81-0994.

From July 1983 to After July 2009

Transferred to 172nd Fighter Squadron/110th Fighter Wing (ANG) W. K. Kellogg Airport, Battle Creek, MI.
Operated with markings: BC

1987

Converted to an OA-10A.

21 July 1995

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

By July 1996

Photographer: Keith R Clarke

Circa 2007

Converted to an A-10C.

From September 2007 to December 2007

Deployed to Iraq for combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom--Part III.

By 4 February 2010

Transferred to 107th FS/127th Wing (ANG), Selfridge AFB, MI.
Operated with markings: MI

By February 2012

Deployed to Afghanistan for combat in Operation Enduring Freedom.

2017

Markings Applied: 100 Years
Painted up in 2017 in special markings to commemorate the 100th birthday of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan as an Army and Air Force air base.

7 August 2017

Photographer: Master Sgt. Vincent DeGroat, 185th Air Refueling Wing, Iowa
Notes: Photographed outside the ANG Paint Facility, Sioux City, IA. This A-10 was painted up in 2017 special markings to commemorate the 100th birthday of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan as an Army and Air Force air base. The 107th Fighter Squadron, currently based there, painted the plane in reference to the North American F-6A Mustangs (photo reconnaissance variant of the P-51A) that it operated when it existed as an Observation Squadron at the type of the D-Day invasion. Its Mustangs of that time were painted olive drab over neutral gray with invasion stripes and gray or, perhaps, yellow ID codes. The red devil motif was adopted by the squadron in the 1950s.This airplane will be flown over the Normandy beaches on June 6, 2018 during the D-Day commemoration.

June 2018

107th Fighter Squadron participated in European rough field landing exercise Saber Strike 18 in Estonia.