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    Airframe Family: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger / F-106 Delta Dart
    Latest Model:YF-102A Delta Dagger
    Last Military Serial:53-1788 USAF
    Construction Number:8-90-2
    Latest Owner or Location:Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YF-102A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-1788.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By May 1991

    To Florence Air and Missile Museum, Florence, SC.
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    By May 1991

    Markings Applied: FC-788, 31788
    In markings of South Carolina ANG.

    27 May 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Loaned to City of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.

    July 1998

    To Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC.
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    26 April 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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