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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10A Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:79-0097 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-361
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Park, Myrtle Beach AFB (formerly), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    Circa 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0097.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to City of Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC.

    By June 1992

    Placed on display with Warbird Park, Myrtle Beach AFB (formerly), Myrtle Beach, SC.
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    Markings Applied: The Dawg Hawg
    Named for Capt. S. Phillis who was killed during Operation Desert Storm.

    29 June 2010


    Photographer: Kevin Kuhn

    27 November 2015


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At Myrtle Beach International Airport, SC (KMYR)

    1 May 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.A.

    By 25 May 2019


    Photographer: Lee Norberg

    By 25 May 2019


    Photographer: Lee Norberg

    By 25 May 2019


    Photographer: Lee Norberg
    Notes: USAF A-10 Tail # 79-097 Close-Up

    By 25 May 2019


    Photographer: Lee Norberg
    Notes: A-10 Main Landing Gear Nameplate

    By 25 May 2019

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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2016 by Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
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