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    Airframe Family: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger / F-106 Delta Dart
    Latest Model:F-102A-55-CO Delta Dagger
    Last Military Serial:56-0986 USAF
    Construction Number:8-10-203
    Compressed ID:Convair F-102A-55-CO sn 56-0986 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Military Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) Air Museum, Akron-Canton Airport, North Canton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-102A-55-CO.

    February 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0986.

    February 1957

    To 317th FIS, 325th Fighter Group, McChord Air Force Base, WA.

    1958

    Transferred to 318th FIS, 325th Fighter Group (Air Defense), McChord Air Force Base, WA.

    From By 1960 to 1969

    Transferred to 32nd FIS, 86th Air Division, Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands.

    1969

    Transferred to 132nd FIS, 101st FIG, Maine ANG, Bangor International Airport, ME.

    From 1969 to 1971

    Transferred to 159th FIS, 125th FIG, Florida ANG, Jacksonville International Airport, FL.

    May 1971

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By November 1987

    Placed on display with Florida Military Aviation Museum, Clearwater, Saint Peterburg, FL.
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    By November 1987

    Loaned to Florida Military Aviation Museum (Branch of California based Yesterdays Air Force).

    10 November 1987


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: F-102A Delta Dagger of the Florida Military Aviation Museum at Clearwater in November 1987 - the museum later closed and this aircraft is now with the MAPS Museum in Ohio.

    February 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Clearwater Airport, FL

    17 March 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    29 July 2003


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Bit of a selection box at Fort Meade, FL. Clearly returning to nature, QF-100D 56-3081/ 339, F-102A 56-986 and F-105B 57-5820 RG were all saved and moved to MAPS AM at Akron, OH.

    Loaned to MAPS Air Museum, North Canton, OH.

    November 2004

    Placed on display with Military Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) Air Museum, Akron-Canton Airport, North Canton, OH.
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    4 May 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Akron - Canton Regional, OH, USA

    4 May 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Akron - Canton Regional, OH, USA

    23 August 2022


    Photographer: Steven Dennis
    Notes: At the MAPS Air Museum, North Canton, OH.
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    John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
    Max Sabin
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