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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:F-16N Block 30C Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:163277 USN
    Construction Number:3M-10
    Compressed ID:GD F-16N Block 30C sn 163277 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16N Block 30C.

    Circa 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-1378.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163277.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Loaned to Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    28 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed outside Palm Springs Airport, California

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA. Markings of the agressor squadron, Navy Fighter Weapons School Top Gun.
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