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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:Sabre 6
    Last Military Serial:D-9539 WGAF
    Construction Number:S6-1603
    Compressed ID:Canadair Sabre 6 sn D-9539 WGAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flugwelt Altenburg-Nobitz, Altenburg Nobitz Airport, Altenburg, Thuringia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sabre 6 by Canadair at Montreal, QC.
    Vom Flugplatz Westerland

    27 June 1957

    First flight.

    1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the West German Air Force with s/n BB+373.

    New serial number assigned: BB+173 WGAF

    New serial number assigned: D-9539 WGAF

    From 1967 to 1974

    Operated by Condor Flugdienst.
    For target towing.

    Based with Airport Westerland (Sylt).

    To Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
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    Circa 2010

    Loaned to Flugwelt Altenburg-Nobitz, Altenburg Nobitz Airport, Altenburg, Thuringia.
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    2 July 2017


    Photographer: Thorsten Ruchel
    Credits
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     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    The Canadair Sabre by Larry Milberry
    Individual Contributors
     Thorsten Ruchel
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