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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:F-86A-5-NA Sabre
    Last Military Serial:49-1086 USAF
    Construction Number:161-80
    Compressed ID:NA F-86A-5-NA sn 49-1086 USAF cn 16...
    Latest Owner or Location:3595th PTG, Nellis AFB

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-86A-5-NA by North American at Inglewood, California, USA.

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-1086.

    To 58th FIS, 33rd FIG, Otis AFB, MA.

    By September 1951

    Transferred to 116th FIS, Washington ANG, Geiger Field, WA.

    Base of operations changed.
    Moses Lake AFB, WA.

    From September 1951 to By November 1952

    Transferred to 116th FIS, 81st FIW, RAF Sheperds Grove, Suffolk, UK.
    Federalized during the Korean War and deployed to England to help bolster NATO forces in Europe.

    By January 1953

    Transferred to 3595th PTG, Nellis AFB.
    Operated with markings: FU-086

    Circa January 1953


    Photographer: 2nd Lt. James M. Howerton
    Notes: Taken at Nellis AFB while learning to fly the aircraft

    Circa January 1953


    Photographer: 2nd Lt. James M. Howerton
    Notes: Taken at Nellis AFB while learning to fly the aircraft

    By September 2023

    The Canadair Cl-13 Sabre on display at Fairchild AFB is marked as this aircraft while assigned to 116th FIS, Washington ANG at RAF Sheperds Grove. It was cosmetically restored in 2023 by Ponsford LTD.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
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