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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-5/CF-116 Freedom Fighter / T-38 Talon
    Latest Model:T-38A-50-NO Talon
    Last Military Serial:63-8182 USAF
    Construction Number:N.5529
    Latest Owner or Location:Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-38A-50-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 63-8182.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to City of Palmdale, Palmdale, CA.

    November 1986


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX.

    October 2000

    Placed on display with Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, CA.
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    20 November 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Palmdale, California, U.S.A.

    26 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, California

    2 May 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale, CA, USA.


    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    John Bennett

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