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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-111
    Latest Model:FB-111A
    Last Military Serial:68-0283 USAF
    Construction Number:B1-55
    Compressed ID:GD FB-111A sn 68-0283 USAF cn B1-55...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    1971

    Constructed as a FB-111A.

    1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 68-0283.
    The airframe was to be assigned this USAF serial number, but never actually entered service due to a crash during an acceptance flight (see below).

    8 January 1971

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Aircraft was on an acceptance test flight from the General Dynamics Plant in Fort Worth. Crashed three miles northeast of Mandeville. Capsule with crews remains was not found until the beginning of February (Tuesday 2nd), three weeks after the loss. Both crew - LT COL Bruce D. Stocks (pilot) and Major Billy C. Gentry (WSO) - were killed. (Aviation Safety.net). Destination was Carswell AFB.

    By June 1996

    To Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.
    Escape capsule only.
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    July 1997

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Only escape capsule remains here.
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    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    To Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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