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    Airframe Family: Republic F-84
    Latest Model:F-84F-35-GK Thunderstreak
    Last Military Serial:51-9456 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

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    Constructed as a F-84F-35-GK by General Motors-Fisher Body at Kansas, City, Missouri.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-9456.

    Circa 1952

    Transferred to 808th Air Base Group, Bergstrom AFB, TX.

    Circa 1953

    Transferred to 508th Strategic Fighter Wing, Turner AFB, GA.

    From 1956 to 1957

    Transferred to 3600th Combat Crew Training Wing, Luke AFB, AZ.

    From 1958 to 1963

    Transferred to 164th Fighter Squadron (ANG), 121st Fighter-Bomber Group, Mansfield, OH.

    Circa 1970

    To unknown owner.
    The aircraft was apparently displayed at an Ohio ANG base upon retirement.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By 1977

    Loaned to EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    8 August 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI in front of the EAA Museum

    By June 2004

    Loaned to Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
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    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Newly restored.

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Grissom Air Museum

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Grissom Air Museum


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Air Venture Museum by Experimental Aircraft Association
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Military Aviation Review
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger

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