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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10A Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:77-0228 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-153
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    16 October 1978

    First flight.

    24 October 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 77-0228.

    1978

    Transferred to 45th Tactical Fighter Squadron/434th Tactical Fighter Wing (AFRES), Grissom AFB, IN.
    Operated with markings: IN

    1 February 1990


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: 77-0228

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    February 1990

    To Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
    View the Location Dossier

    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Grissom Air Museum at Grissom AFB, Indiana.

    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Grissom Air Museum at Grissom AFB, Indiana.

    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    15 May 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Plane Logger
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     Glenn Chatfield
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