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    Airframe Family: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger / F-106 Delta Dart
    Latest Model:PQM-102A Delta Dagger
    Last Military Serial:56-2317 USAF
    Construction Number:8-12-49
    Compressed ID:Convair PQM-102A sn 56-2317 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TF-102A-38-CO.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-2317.

    Circa 1957

    Transferred to Assigned to 61st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 327th Fighter Group, Truax Field WI.

    Circa 1959

    Transferred to 37th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 14th Fighter Group (Air Defense), Ethan Allen AFB, VT.

    By May 1960

    Transferred to 59th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Goose Air Defense Sector, Goose Bay AB, Labrador.

    1962

    Transferred to 4780th Air Defense Wing, Perrin AFB, TX.

    1962

    Transferred to 4756th Air Defense Wing, Tyndall AFB, FL.

    Transferred to 317th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Alaskan Air Command, Elmendorf AFB, AK.

    1963

    Transferred to 331st Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Webb AFB, TX.

    Circa 1964

    Transferred to 111th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (ANG), 147th Reconnaissance Wing, Ellington AFB, TX.

    Transferred to 190th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (ANG), 124th Fighter-Interceptor Group, Gowen Field, Boise, ID.

    1968

    Transferred to Air Defense Weapons Center, Tyndall AFB, FL.

    1968

    Converted to a PQM-102A.

    June 1975

    Loaned to Speery Corporation.

    Used for testing the drone control equipment, and for checkout flights for trainee drone pilots.

    2 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: TF-102A Delta Dagger at the Air Defence Weapons Centre at Tyndall AFB in November 1979.

    August 1982

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.
    WFU at Tyndall AFB.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By 1995

    To Yankee Air Museum, Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP) (East Side), Ypsilanti, MI.
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    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Yankee Air Force Museum in Yipsilanti, Michigan.

    Markings Applied: La Tina

    4 December 2006

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
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    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Unloading after arrival the previous night

    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    15 May 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla


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    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Grissom Air Museum
    National Museum of the United States Air Force

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield

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