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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:F-16N Block 30B Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:163269 USN
    Construction Number:3M-2
    Compressed ID:GD F-16N Block 30B sn 163269 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16N Block 30B.
    Originally ordered as F-16C for USAF

    Circa 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-1370.
    This serial was only used for book-keeping purposes and the airframe was delivered directly to USN.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163269.

    Transferred to USN Fighter Weapons School, NAS Miramar.

    Markings Applied: 42
    Navy titles on port fuselage, Marines titles on starboard.

    By July 1989


    Photographer: Keith R Clarke

    Circa June 1990


    Photographer: Unknown

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    By February 1995

    To San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    18 October 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in the Static Park of the 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow in San Diego, California
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Max Sabin
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