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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:AF-1E Fury
    Last Military Serial:139531 USN
    Construction Number:209-151
    Compressed ID:NA AF-1E sn 139531 USN cn 209-151
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a FJ-4B.

    14 December 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 139531.

    1962

    Redesignated as AF-1E.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1F0010.

    May 1978

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 00, NA
    In the markings of ATG-1.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By 2011

    Markings Applied: 531, 151
    In the markings of the Prototype flight testing, Columbus NAS, 1956.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Robert Nichols
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