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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:QF-16C Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:QF-052 USAF
    Construction Number:5C-310
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Air Force

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16C Block 30B.

    29 May 1987

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-1568.

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AAFG0655.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n QF-052.

    June 1987

    To 14th TFS, 35th TFW, Misawa AB, Japan.
    Markings added: MJ

    April 1991

    Transferred to 72D TFTS, 56th TTW, MacDill AFB, FL.
    Operated with markings: MC

    1 October 1991

    Transferred to 72D FS 56th OG, MacDill AFB, FL.
    Operated with markings: MC

    From April 1992 to June 2003

    Transferred to 174th FS, 185th FW, Iowa ANG, Sioux City ANGB, IA.
    Operated with markings: The Beast, IOWA

    Circa September 1996


    Photographer: Ken Buchanan
    Notes: 174th FS, 185th FW, Iowa ANG. Based at Sioux City, Iowa.

    From December 1997 to May 1998

    Deployed to Ahmed Al-Jaber AB, Kuwait, during Operation Southern Watch.

    27 March 1998


    Photographer: USAF
    Notes: Parked near a destroyed hardened aircraft shelter at Ahmed Al-Jaber AB during Operation Southern Watch

    June 2003

    Transferred to 138th FS, 174th FW, New York ANG, Hancock ANGB, Syracuse, NY.

    From September 2006 to 3 March 2007

    Deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    5 May 2010

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AAFG0655.

    27 September 2018

    To Sent to Boeing, Cecil Field, FL.

    By August 2020

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n QF-052 as a QF-16C.
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