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    Airframe Family: Grumman F11F/F-11 Tiger
    Latest Model:F-11A Tiger
    Last Military Serial:141790 USN
    Construction Number:107
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-11A sn 141790 USN cn 107
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F11F-1.

    January 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141790.

    January 1959

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 191 (VF-191), USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31).
    Operated with markings: NM-102

    1961

    Assigned to AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage for storage.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as F-11A.

    From 1964 to 1966

    Transferred to U. S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: 2
    Few only for the 1965 season.

    Circa 1967

    Transferred to Glynco NAS, GA.

    2 January 1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    SOC at Glynco NAS.

    Circa 1969

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Circa January 1969

    Loaned to NAS Glenco, GA.
    Displayed as gate guardian.

    30 June 1969


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: In front of Glynco NAS in Georgia.

    By May 1991

    Loaned to Florence Air and Missile Museum, Florence, SC.
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    27 May 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By June 1998

    Loaned to Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
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    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    15 May 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
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    Blue Angels
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Grissom Air Museum
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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