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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:GA-10A Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:80-0219 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-569
    Latest Owner or Location:Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    Circa 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 80-0219.

    By 4 April 1989

    Transferred to 509th Tactical Fighter Squadron/10th Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Alconbury.

    4 April 1989

    Crashed.
    Crashed near Stukely, Huntingdonshire after failing to gain height following a touch-and-go landing at RAF Alconbury. The pilot ejected safely and the airframe was converted to a GA-10A for display at the base.

    Redesignated as GA-10A.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to RAF Alconbury (uk), 423 CES/CEA, APO AE.

    Based at Alconbury AB, Alconbury, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    24 May 2016

    Based at Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England.
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    24 May 2016


    Photographer: Julien
    Notes: Being loaded for its journey to Suffolk

    15 September 2020

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