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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:GF-16B Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:79-0420 USAF
    Construction Number:62-52
    Latest Owner or Location:Illinois ANG - 182nd Airlift Wing Unit, Peoria, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16B Block 10.

    13 November 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0420.

    14 November 1980

    Transferred to 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron, 57th Fighter Weapons Wing, Nellis AFB, NV.
    Operated with markings: WA

    By April 1982

    Transferred to 72nd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, 56th Tactical Training Wing, MacDill AFB, FL.
    Operated with markings: MC

    By March 1989

    Transferred to 127th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, 184th Tactical Fighter Group (ANG), McConnell AFB, KS.

    By June 1989

    Transferred to 161st Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, 184th Tactical Fighter Group (ANG), McConnell AFB, KS.

    1 April 1990


    Photographer: H. Homuth
    Notes: Photo taken at McConnell AFB, Kansas

    15 March 1992

    Transferred to 138th Fighter Squadron, 174th Tactical Fighter Wing (ANG), Hancock ANG Base NY.
    Operated with markings: NY

    By August 1993

    Transferred to 362nd Training Squadron, 82nd Training Wing, Sheppard AFB, TX.
    Operated with markings: ST
    Used as an instructional airframe.

    Redesignated as GF-16B.

    By 2004

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Il Ang (Peoria), 182 MXS/MXMT, Peoria, IL.

    April 2009

    To Illinois ANG-182nd Airlift Wing Unit, Peoria, IL.
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    Markings Applied: AF 82 042, IL, PEORIA
    Marked as 82-1042 which crashed at Peoria on 23 June 1993.

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     F-16.net
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
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