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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:YA-10A Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:71-1370 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-002
    Latest Owner or Location:Marshall Army Airfield, Fort Riley, KS

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YA-10A.
    Second prototype.

    21 July 1972

    First flight.

    Circa July 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 71-1370.

    1972

    Transferred to Air Force Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA.

    From 1979 to 1984

    Used as traveling exhibit with Air Force Orientation Group (AFOG).

    From 26 July 1984 to After 1999

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Latest photo on the net taken at the NMUSAF shows 1999.
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    Markings Applied: EL, AF79 223

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: NMUSAF

    26 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the National Museum of the USAF

    16 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    16 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    13 August 1998


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the National Museum of the USAF

    By 2002

    Loaned to Aero Club, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, VA.
    Markings changed to: EL, AF79 223
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    November 2011

    Loaned to Marshall Army Airfield, Fort Riley, KS.
    Markings changed to: EL, AF79 223
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