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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre
    Latest Model:F-86L Sabre
    Last Military Serial:53-1045 USAF
    Construction Number:201-489
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Wendover Airfield, Wendover Airport, Wendover, Utah

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-86D-60-NA by North American at Inglewood, California, USA.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-1045.

    5 July 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-1045.

    5 July 1955

    Transferred to 465th FIS McChord AFB.

    17 August 1955

    Transferred to 318th FIS McChord AFB.
    Assigned to the 318th under Project Arrow.

    From 3 January 1956 to 22 January 1956

    Used for rocket firing at TDY Yuma AFB.

    Transferred to North American Aviation, Inglewood, CA.

    9 February 1957

    Converted to a F-86L.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Battle Mountain Air Museum, Lander County Airport, Battle Mountain, NV.
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    18 September 2006


    Photographer: Craig Smith
    Notes: This is the Sabre before the move to Wendover, Ut.

    Loaned to Tooele County, Tooele, UT.

    October 2008

    Placed on display with Historic Wendover Airfield, Wendover Airport, Wendover, UT.
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    Circa March 2009


    Photographer: Thomas Petersen
    Notes: This is the cockpit as it was when the airframe was removed from the pole in Battle Mountain, NV

    22 March 2010


    Photographer: Joseph Scheil
    Notes: Under cover and under restoration.finally a home for a very historic jet!


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