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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-89 Scorpion
    Latest Model:F-89J Scorpion
    Last Military Serial:52-1911 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-89D-45-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    20 September 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-1911.

    20 September 1954

    Transferred to 528th Air Defense Group (Air Defense Command), Presque Isle AFB, ME.

    December 1954

    Transferred to 82nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (ADC), Presque Isle AFB.

    August 1955

    Transferred to 76th FIG (ADC), Presque Isle AFB.

    April 1956

    Transferred to 75th FIG (ADC), Presque Isle AFB.

    May 1957

    Converted to a F-89J.
    At Northrop Aircraft, Palmdale, CA.

    September 1957

    Transferred to 319th FIS (ADC), Bunker Hill AFB, IN.

    January 1960

    Transferred to 132nd FIS (ANG), Dow AFB, ME.

    December 1962

    Transferred to 101st Fighter Group (ANG), Dow AFB, ME.

    July 1969

    To United States Air Force Museum, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    22 July 1969

    Ferry flight. Delivered to United States Air Force Museum, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Last F-89 retired from the USAF inventory. Ferried to Wright Field waiting for new museum facility.

    4 August 1971

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Placed on display.
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    March 1972


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    By 1987

    Markings Applied: FV-509, 32509
    Aircraft is painted to represent an F-89J (S/N 53-2509) assigned to the 449th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in the late 1950s. Based at Ladd Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska (NMUSAF).

    19 September 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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