Dates |
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Event |
December 1958 |
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Constructed as a F-106B.
Constructed as a Convair F-106B-31-CO Delta Dart. 41st F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA |
3 June 1959 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-2517. |
3 June 1959 |
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To 498th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Geiger Field, WA. |
12 May 1960 |
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Transferred to 73rd Air Division Tyndall AFB, FL. |
22 May 1962 |
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Transferred to 95th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Andrews AFB, MD. |
1 July 1963 |
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Transferred to 95th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Dover AFB, DE. |
September 1969 |
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Photographer: Ken Buchanan Collection |
30 October 1969 |
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Transferred to Air Defense Weapons Center (ADWC), Tyndall AFB, FL. |
10 April 1970 |
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Transferred to 95th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Dover AFB, DE. |
10 August 1970 |
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Transferred to Air Defense Weapons Center (ADWC), Tyndall AFB, FL. |
2 November 1972 |
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Transferred to 186th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 120th Fighter Interceptor Group, Montana Air National Guard, Great Falls MT. |
26 June 1987 |
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Transferred to 101st Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 102nd Fighter Interceptor Group, Massachusetts Air National Guard, Otis AFB, MA. |
26 January 1988 |
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Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number FN177. |
19 October 1992 |
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To AEL Inc, East Alton, IL. |
After 4 February 1994 |
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Converted to a QF-106B with s/n AD256. |
10 December 1994 |
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Transferred to 47th Weapons Evaluation Group, Holloman AFB, AZ. |
21 March 1997 |
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Crashed.
Crash landed due to locked brakes. Suffered extensive nose damage. |
21 March 1997 |
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(3 July 1999) Col Robert Buzz Sawyer writes: On 21 March 97, Jim Fairhurst (one of my LM pilots) ferried AD256 (57-2517) to Tyndall, as we were sending all our 106s East, making room for our QF-4s. When he landed, his right brake was locked, and with just about 100 hours total QF-106 time, he could not keep it on the runway. She hit the barrier housing and broke off the right gear, and spun around, almost flipping over on her back. The other two gear collapsed, the nose was broken off (which threw the battery out of the jet), and he had to be cut out of the cockpit. The aftermath is attached.After being grounded and scrutinized by an accident board, our MC-11 maintenance was suspect, and we went through a big thrash replacing the air dryers. Well on 14 March 97, I flew AD199 to Tyndall, and my left brake was locked when I landed! It felt like I rolled over a BAK-12 cable as I touched down (my tire blowing) and the jet started drifting left. Tower says I have smoke coming from my left wheel, I appear to have blown a tire.My hands are full as I am about to go off into the grass on the left side of the runway, as the tower now says my left wheel has caught fire. Great! Well, with full forward and right stick, nosewheel steering hard right, and a little right brake, I got the plane parallel to the runway, and starting to correct back to the right a little. I still thought I just had a blown tire, and was planning to turn off, when the jet just stopped. I could not taxi any further, so I opened the canopy and looked out (getting ready to jump over the side if I was on fire) and saw my wheel was ground off almost to the hub.Well, I left it on the runway and got a ride back into ops with the WEG commander. Having seen what happened to 256 three weeks earlier, he says, nice job keeping it on the runway. Thanks. That was it. My boss did not even put me in for a $$ award! |
21 March 1997 |
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Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force. |
April 2000 |
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To unknown owner. |
April 2000 |
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To Century Airlines Inc, El Paso International Airport, El Paso, TX.
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20 January 2003 |
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Scrapped. |
