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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:F-16N Block 30E Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:163281 USN
    Construction Number:3N-4
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1985

    Constructed as a F-16N Block 30E.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-1382.
    This serial was only used for book-keeping purposes and the airframe was delivered directly to USN and did not serve with the USAF.

    Circa 1986

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163281.

    By November 1990

    Transferred to VA-45, NAS Key West, FL.

    By November 1990

    Markings Applied: 25, AD
    Red star on tail fin.

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    15 December 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 1F0009.

    15 December 1994

    New serial number assigned: FG0490 AMARC
    Still present Jan 2008.


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