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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:F-86H Sabre
    Last Military Serial:53-1300 USAF
    Last Civil Registration:N8853
    Compressed ID:NA F-86H sn 53-1300 USAF cr N8853
    Latest Owner or Location:Combat Air Museum, Forbes AFB, Topeka, Kansas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-86H.

    3 May 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-1300.

    May 1955

    Transferred to 359th Combat Crew Training Wing (Air Training Command), Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), NV.

    January 1957

    To Spartan Aircraft Corp., Ontario, CA.
    Acquired for contract work.

    December 1957

    Transferred to 101st Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS), Massachusetts Air National Guard (MAANG), Logan Field, Boston, MA.

    June 1958

    Transferred to 102nd Consolidated Logistics Maintenance Squadron (MAANG), Logan Field, Boston, MA.

    April 1959

    Transferred to 101st Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) (MAANG), Logan Field, Boston, MA.

    November 1961

    To 102nd Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW), USAF Europe, Phalsbourg AB, France.
    Based here during the Berlin Crisis.

    July 1962

    Transferred to 101st Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) (MAANG), Logan Field, Boston, MA.

    August 1962

    Transferred to 101st TFS (MAANG), Logan Field, Boston, MA.

    October 1963

    Transferred to 156th FG (PRANG), San Juan, PR.

    Circa 1965


    Photographer: MNANG Museum
    Notes: This image was cropped out of a larger image that shows several PRANG F-86H Sabres on the ramp in Puerto Rico. It was taken by a photographer with the Minnesota Air National Guard in the early 1960s when the unit flew down there for an exercise.

    January 1968

    Transferred to 175th TFG (MDANG), Martin Airport, Baltimore, MD.

    July 1970

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

    18 September 1970

    To Hawkeye Institute of Technology, Waterloo, IA with new c/r N8853 (F-86H, 53-1300).

    18 September 1970

    Civil registration, N8853, cancelled.

    To Combat Air Museum, Forbes AFB, Topeka, KS.
    View the Location Dossier

    25 March 2021


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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