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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:F-16A Block 1 Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:J-215 KLu
    Construction Number:6D-4
    Compressed ID:Fokker F-16A Block 1 sn J-215 KLu c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Nationale Militaire Museum, Former Soesterberg Air Base, Soesterberg, Utrecht

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16A Block 1 by Fokker.

    Circa 1979

    Assigned s/n 78-0215 with the United States Air Force for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.

    26 November 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force with s/n J-215.

    By May 1985

    Transferred to 323 Squadron, Leeuwarden.

    25 May 1985


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: F-16A Fighting Falcon of the Training and Conversion Unit (TCA) of the Royal Netherlands Air Force on the flight-line at the 1985 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    25 May 1985


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete

    Transferred to Training and Conversion Unit (TCA), Leeuwarden Air Base.

    By January 1987

    Transferred to 322 Squadron, Leeuwarden Air Base.

    April 1991

    Took part in NATO Exercise Elder Joust 91-1.

    To Militaire Luchtvaart Museum, Kamp van Zeist, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    9 April 2005


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Militaire Luchtvaart Museum at Soesterberg, the Netherlands.

    10 October 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    2014

    To Nationale Militaire Museum, Former Soesterberg Air Base, Soesterberg, Utrecht.
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    28 January 2015


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Nationale Militaire Museum, the Netherlands
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     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Thomas Delvoye
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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