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    Airframe Family: North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
    Latest Model:OV-10A Bronco
    Last Military Serial:155427 USMC
    Construction Number:305-038
    Last Civil Registration:N415DF
    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 155427.

    From October 1993 to By 1999

    To US Forest Service with new c/r N415DF.

    Circa 4 February 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N415DF (OV-10A, 30568M38) issued.

    4 February 1999

    To California Department of Forestry/USDA Forest Service Fepp, McClellan, CA keeping c/r N415DF.

    4 February 1999

    To USDA Forest Service Fepp, McClellan, CA keeping c/r N415DF.

    Operated by California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    Used as a CDF spares source.

    By 1999

    Placed in open storage at Mather, CA.

    Operated as fire service #460 with markings: CAL FIRE
    Returned to service.

    26 May 2007


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N415DF, together with its stable mates N418DF and N441DF in the maintenance hangar of CDF Aviation, McClellan, CA

    4 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed on the ramp at Hollister.

    18 June 2016


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hollister Air Show at Hollister, California.

    29 September 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Salinas International Air Show in Salinas, CA.
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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