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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:82-0659 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-707
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 82-0659...
    Latest Owner or Location:357th FS, 355th FW, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    3 November 1983

    First flight.

    1 December 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 82-0659.

    June 1985

    Transferred to 81st TFW, RAF Bentwaters, England.
    Operated with markings: WR

    1987

    Converted to an OA-10A.

    By July 1996

    Transferred to 103rd FS, 111th FW, Pennsylvania ANG, NAS Willow Grove, PA.
    Operated with markings: PA

    By July 1996


    Photographer: Keith R Clarke

    7 June 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the London International Air Show at London, Ontario.

    7 June 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the London International Air Show at London, Ontario.

    June 1998


    Photographer: David F. Brown
    Notes: Note tailband changes.

    2006

    Converted to an A-10C.

    Transferred to 131st FS, 104th FW, Massachusetts ANG, Barnes ANGB, MA.

    20 October 2013


    Photographer: Major Brian Boeding
    Notes: Mass.ANG, Iraq

    By March 2017

    Transferred to 357th FS, 355th FW, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
    Operated with markings: DM
    Yellow fin band.

    15 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: on approach to Davis-Monthan AFB, Az
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