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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-89 Scorpion
    Latest Model:F-89D-60-NO Scorpion
    Last Military Serial:53-2536 USAF
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-89D-60-NO sn 53-2536 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-89D-60-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    Circa 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-2536.

    Transferred to 176th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (ANG), 115th Fighter-Interceptor Group, Truax Field, WI.

    Transferred to 126th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Wisconsin ANG, General Mitchell ANGB, WI.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1958

    Loaned to EAA Airventure Museum, Oshkosh, WI.

    Placed on display with EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    August 1964


    Photographer: Unknown

    By July 1967


    Photographer: Bud Markel
    Notes: Photographed at the EAA Aviation Museum, Oshkosh, WI.

    July 1987


    Photographer: Mike Fuller

    30 July 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    February 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    To EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    9 March 2024


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Credits
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    USAF Orders of Battle
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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