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    Airframe Family: Republic F-84
    Latest Model:F-84F-35-RE Thunderstreak
    Last Military Serial:52-6497 USAF
    Last Civil Registration:N5372
    Compressed ID:Republic F-84F-35-RE sn 52-6497 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, Camp Dodge NGB, Des Moines, Iowa

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-84F-35-RE by Republic at Farmingdale, New York, USA.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-6497.

    Transferred to 27th Strategic Fighter Wing, Bergstrom AFB, TX.

    Transferred to 152nd Fighter Squadron, Arizona ANG, Tucson, AZ.

    By 1959

    Transferred to 169th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Illinois ANG, Peoria, IL.

    Civil registration N16263 reserved but not taken up.

    October 1971

    To Community School District, Des Moines, IA with new c/r N5372.
    Used as maintenance trainer.

    29 August 1989

    Civil registration, N5372, cancelled.

    By 1997

    To Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, Camp Dodge NGB, Des Moines, IA.
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    13 June 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: East of the museum, out by the road. By 2006 it was in front of the museum

    15 November 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    15 November 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    15 September 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
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    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Wikipedia
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    Mike Henniger
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