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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:GF-16A Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:79-0327 USAF
    Construction Number:61-112
    Compressed ID:GD GF-16A sn 79-0327 USAF cn 61-112...
    Latest Owner or Location:Luke Air Force Base Airpark, Luke AFB, Phoenix, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16A Block 10.
    GF-16A as 86-291

    26 September 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0327.

    30 September 1980

    To 4485th Test Squadron, USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center, Eglin AFB, FL.
    Markings added: OT

    April 1982

    Transferred to 61st TFTS, 56th TTW, MacDill AFB, FL.
    Operated with markings: MC

    September 1984

    Transferred to 311th TFTS, 58th TFTW, Luke AFB, AZ.
    Operated with markings: LF

    By 1990

    Transferred to 138th TFS, 174th TFG, Hancock Field, Syracuse, New York, New York ANG,.

    November 1990

    Deployed during Operation Desert Storm.

    October 1991

    Transferred to 162D TFG, Arizona ANG, Tucson ANGB, AZ.

    October 1992

    Transferred to 162D FW, Arizona ANG, Tucson ANGB, AZ.

    June 1993

    To Technical Training Center, Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX.
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    June 1993

    Redesignated as GF-16A.

    4 April 2006

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 944 FW/HO, Luke AFB, AZ.

    2 August 2006

    To Luke Air Force Base Airpark, Luke AFB, Phoenix, AZ.
    Formally unveiled on this date.
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    10 December 2010


    Photographer: Richard Lane

    15 February 2012


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy

    This jet is marked as F-16C Block 32D s/n 86-0291 in a scheme that it wore in 1997 and 2006. 0291 went on display at Nellis AFB in June 2023.
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