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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:QF-16C Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:QF-008 USAF
    Construction Number:5C-271
    Latest Owner or Location:Boeing, Seattle, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16C Block 30B.

    28 February 1987

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-1491.

    March 1987

    To 13th TFS, 432D TFW, Misawa AB, Japan.
    Markings added: MJ

    October 1991

    To 13th FS, 432D OG, Misawa AB, Japan.

    October 1994

    Transferred to 107th FS, 127th OG, Michigan ANG, Selfridge ANGB, MI.
    Operated with markings: MI

    June 1997

    Markings Applied: MI, City of Detroit

    7 June 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the London International Air Show at London, Ontario.

    From February 2004 to June 2004

    Deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    Circa 2008

    Transferred to 163D FS, 122D OG, Indiana ANG, Fort Wayne ANGS, IN.

    8 July 2010

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AAFG0703.

    April 2013

    Transferred to .

    29 April 2015

    Transferred to 82D ATRS, 53D WEG, Tyndall Air Force Base, FL.

    April 2016

    To Boeing, Seattle, WA.
    Used as an electrmognetic testbed at Boeing in Seattle.
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