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    Airframe Family: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger / F-106 Delta Dart
    Latest Model:PQM-102B Delta Dagger
    Last Military Serial:769 USAF
    Construction Number:8-10-845
    Compressed ID:Convair PQM-102B sn 769 USAF cn 8-1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tyndall AFB, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-102A-95-CO.

    Circa 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-0879.

    Circa 1958

    To 456th FIS, 28th Air Division, Castle AFB, CA.
    Markings added: FC-879

    Transferred to 82nd FIS, 78th Fighter Group, Travis AFB, CA.
    Operated with markings: FC-879

    Transferred to 325th FIS, 327th Fighter Group, Truax Field, WI.
    Operated with markings: FC-879

    Circa 1960

    Transferred to 59th FIS, Goose Air Defense Sector, Goose Air Base, Labrador, CAN.

    Circa 1966

    Transferred to 178th FIS, 119th FIG, North Dakota ANG, Fargo AP, ND.
    Operated with markings: NORTH DAKOTA, The Happy Hooligans

    Circa 1967


    Photographer: Dick Logan via Fargo Air Museum

    After 1969

    Transferred to 146th FIS, 112th FIG, Pennsylvania ANG, Greater Pittsburgh IAP, PA.

    10 June 1974

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number FJ275.

    20 December 1979

    To Sperry Flight Systems, Litchfield Park, AZ.
    For drone conversion.

    By 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 769 as a PQM-102B.

    By June 1980

    To Tyndall AFB, FL.

    18 June 1980

    Shot down.
    Shot down over the Gulf of Mexico in a missile test flight from Tyndall AFB, FL.
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