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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10A Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:79-0103 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-367
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10A sn 79-0103...
    Latest Owner or Location:Connecticut ANG - 103rd FW, Windsor Locks, Connecticut

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    9 June 1980

    First flight.

    20 June 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0103.

    By April 1982

    To 81st TFW, RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk.
    Markings added: WR

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to CT Ang (east Granby), 103 MXG/CC, East Granby, CT.

    To Connecticut ANG-103rd FW, Windsor Locks, CT.
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    Circa 1999


    Photographer: Major Brian Boeding
    Notes: Airplane being mounted on pedestal in the 118th TRS airpark.

    July 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Bradley ANGB, CT.

    27 May 2003


    Photographer: Major Brian Boeding
    Notes: Markings include the Flying Yankee emblem, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Ribbon, and the lightning bolt on the vertical stabelizer.

    Circa 2013


    Photographer: Kevin Foy
    Notes: New Black Lightning markings applied.
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