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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:TF-16N Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:163278 USN
    Construction Number:3N-1
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16D.

    Circa 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-1379.
    Serial number allocated for production administrative purposes, aircraft did not serve in USAF.

    Redesignated as TF-16N.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163278.

    February 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX on transient ramp

    Transferred to VF-45, NAS Key West, FL.

    Markings Applied: 05, AD

    13 November 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Airshow

    8 December 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 1F0008.

    8 December 1994

    New serial number assigned: FG0487 AMARC
    To USAF inventory.

    8 December 1994

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 21.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Tom Tessier
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