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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter / T-38 Talon / Canadair CF-116
    Latest Model:YT-38A Talon
    Last Military Serial:58-1192 USAF
    Construction Number:N.5002
    Compressed ID:Northrop YT-38A sn 58-1192 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YT-38-05-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    January 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 58-1192.

    January 1959

    Transferred to Flight Test Center Edwards AF, CA.
    Operated with markings: TF-192

    12 June 1959

    First flight.

    By 1961

    Converted to a YT-38A.

    By May 1988

    Transferred to USAF Operations Group, Washington, DC.
    Used as a mobile exhibit.

    By 1991

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 28 BW/MU, Ellsworth AFB, SD.

    By September 1991

    To South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, SD.
    View the Location Dossier

    14 September 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    2 October 2020


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    United States Military Aircraft Since 1909 by Swanborough and Bowers
    Internet Sources
     Air Force Historial Studies Office
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    ROGER DUCLOS
    Mike Henniger
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