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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-111
    Latest Model:RF-111C
    Last Military Serial:A8-146 RAAF
    Construction Number:D1-22
    Latest Owner or Location:6 Squadron, RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a RF-111C.

    2 January 1969

    First flight.

    4 December 1973

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A8-146.

    Transferred to 3AD.

    Converted to a RF-111C.

    Transferred to 6 Squadron, RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.

    From October 1986 to November 1986

    Took part in Reconnaissance Air Meet 86 held at Bergstrom AFB, TX.

    1991


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1991 photo at RAAF Richmond

    4 June 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At a very wet photo call at Yeovilton.

    4 June 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At a very wet photo call at Yeovilton.

    21 August 2005


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: A8-146 making a low pass at the Mareeba Airshow, QLD, Australia

    By November 2010

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Australian Air Force.
    Noted retired and placed in fenced off dump.

    November 2011

    Scrapped.
    Aircraft scrapped and fuselage buried at Swanbank landfill site near Ipswich.


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