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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7K Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:81-0073 USAF
    Construction Number:K-026
    Latest Owner or Location:Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, Camp Dodge NGB, Des Moines, Iowa

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7K.

    1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 81-0073.

    1983

    Transferred to 174th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 185th Fighter Wing (ANG), Sioux City, IA.

    24 June 1990


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1990 photo taken at Liege / Bierset in Belgium

    1992

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    1992

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1992

    Loaned to IA Ang (Sioux City), 185 Arw/LGRR, Sioux City, IA.

    1992

    Placed on display with Iowa Air National Guard-185th Fighter Wing, Sioux City, IA.
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    13 August 1999


    Photographer: Mike Worrel

    August 2013

    Loaned to Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, Camp Dodge NGB, Des Moines, IA.
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    6 October 2018


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Just north of the Iowa Gold Star Museum

    6 October 2018


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Just north of the Iowa Gold Star Museum
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