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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7D-6-CV Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:69-6239 USAF
    Construction Number:D-069
    Compressed ID:Vought A-7D-6-CV sn 69-6239 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Faulkton Municipal Airport, Faulkton, South Dakota

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7D-6-CV by Vought at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    Circa January 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 69-6239.

    1971

    Transferred to 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 354th Tactical Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach AFB, SC.

    From 12 October 1972 to January 1973

    Deployed to Korat Royal Thai AFB, Thailand, for combat in Vietnam.

    1976

    Transferred to 356th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 354th Tactical Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach AFB, SC.

    1977

    Transferred to 355th Tactical Fighter Wing Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

    1979

    Transferred to 125th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 138th Tactical Fighter Group, Oklahoma ANG, Tulsa, OK.
    Operated with markings: OK

    1988

    Transferred to 124th TFS, 132nd TFG, Iowa ANG, Des Moines, IA.

    From By 1990 to 1993

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 185th TFG, Iowa ANG, Sioux City, IA.

    19 May 1990


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: When active. On display at open house at Chicago OHare ANG/AF Reserve base. Photographed during thunderstorm.

    1993

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    By 1995

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to City of Faulkton, Faulkton, SD.

    June 1995

    To Faulkton Municipal Airport, Faulkton, SD.
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    17 August 2015


    Photographer: Mike Worrel

    3 October 2020


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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    Mike Henniger
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