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    Airframe Family: North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
    Latest Model:OV-10A Bronco
    Last Military Serial:155457 USMC
    Construction Number:305-068
    Last Civil Registration:N401DF
    Compressed ID:North American Rockwell OV-10A sn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an OV-10A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 155457.

    6 June 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1V0001.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 155457.
    Returned to service.

    Circa 10 March 1993

    To California Department. of Forestry/US Forest Service, Mather, CA with new c/r N401DF.

    From Unknown to Circa 2022

    To California Department. of Forestry/US Forest Service, McClellan, CA keeping c/r N401DF.

    By 2000

    Operated as fire service #310 with markings: 310, CDF, FIRE

    Circa 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Hemet-Ryan Airport, CA

    Based at California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    By 8 December 2013

    Operated as fire service #440 with markings: 440, CAL FIRE, 440

    2 August 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at McClellan Air Park, Sacramento, CA.

    21 May 2016


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Columbia Airport in California.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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