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    Airframe Family: North American F-100 Super Sabre
    Latest Model:F-100C-5-NA Super Sabre
    Last Military Serial:54-1785 USAF
    Construction Number:217-46
    Latest Owner or Location:Yankee Air Museum, Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP) (East Side), Ypsilanti, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    6 August 1955

    Constructed as a F-100C-5-NA by North American at Inglewood, California, USA.
    Factory Roll out

    15 September 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-1785.

    15 September 1955

    Transferred to NAMIC (Air Materiel Command), Inglewood, CA.

    20 September 1955

    Transferred to 450th Fighter-Day Wing (Tactical Air Command), Foster AFB, TX.

    Circa 1955


    Photographer: USAF photo
    Notes: Unknown location

    10 November 1955

    Transferred to 3320th Technical Training Wing (Air Training Command), Amarillo, TX.

    1 January 1959

    Transferred to Air Force Officer Training Command, Amarillo, TX.

    January 1959

    Redesignated as UF-100C.

    30 June 1962

    Transferred to 3320th Maintenance Support Group (Air Training Command), Amarillo, TX.

    31 May 1967

    Transferred to 3345th Maintenance Support Group (Air Training Command), Chanute AFB, IL.

    29 March 1968

    Redesignated as GF-100C.

    31 October 1975

    Transferred to Chanute Technical Training Center (Air Training Command), Chanute AFB, IL.

    April 1981

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

    Markings Applied: 54785
    Marked as Thunderbirds Aerial Demonstration Team aircraft.

    Placed on display.
    Displayed in Thunderbird Airpark, Chanute AFB.

    1989

    Redesignated as F-100C-5-NA.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    October 1991


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Chanute AFB Museum in Rantoul, IL.

    1993

    Loaned to Chanute Air Museum, Chanute AFB (formerly), Rantoul, IL.
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    19 September 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    20 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    20 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    24 October 2015

    Loaned to Yankee Air Museum, Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP) (East Side), Ypsilanti, MI.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Chanute Air Museum
    F-100 Serial Database
    Friends of the Super Sabre
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    The North American F-100 Super Sabre Database Project
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Ed Shearer
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