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    Airframe Family: Boeing B737 / C-40 / T-43
    Latest Model:T-43A
    Last Military Serial:73-1153 USAF
    Construction Number:20700
    Compressed ID:Boeing T-43A sn 73-1153 USAF cn 207...
    Latest Owner or Location:Randolph AFB, San Antonio, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    1974

    Constructed as a T-43A.

    Circa 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 73-1153.

    Markings Applied: Spirit of San Antonio, U.S. AIR FORCE, RA, 562 FTS

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At RIAT Fairford.

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Attended 2003 RIAT Military Tattoo at Fairford

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 12 FTW/MXMFA, Randolph AFB, TX.

    Based at Randolph AFB, San Antonio, TX.
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    Markings Applied: RA

    15 July 2009


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: USAF, 562 FTS, coded RA, named The Spirit of San Antonio, based at Randolph AFB, Texas. On final approach to Fairford, r/w 27.

    6 August 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Thunder Over Michigan in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

    26 August 2010


    Photographer: Charles Baumann
    Notes: On ramp at Randolph AFB Texas. Number 2 engine started, ready for number 1. Normal Student training mission.


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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood

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    Charles Baumann
    Terry Fletcher

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