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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:79-0146 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-410
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 79-0146...
    Latest Owner or Location:47th FS, 924th FW, AFRC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    1980

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    24 September 1980

    First flight.

    8 October 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0146.

    From By June 1986 to 2008

    Transferred to 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron/917th Tactical Fighter Wing (AFRES), Barksdale AFB, LA.
    Operated with markings: BD

    From 29 June 1986 to 11 July 1986

    Deployed to Ahlhorn, FRG as Exercise Coronet Cheyenne.

    By May 1990

    Transferred to 46th Fighter Squadron/917th Fighter Wing (AFRES), Barksdale AFB, LA.
    Operated with markings: BD

    26 June 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    By 2006

    Transferred to 47th Fighter Squadron/917th Fighter Wing (AFRES), Barksdale AFB, LA.

    16 May 2008

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AC0503.
    For conversion to A-10C.

    2008

    Converted to an A-10C.

    By September 2009

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0146.

    From By September 2009 to June 2013

    Transferred to 47th Fighter Squadron/917th Fighter Group (AFRC), Barksdale AFB, LA.

    June 2013

    Transferred to 47th Fighter Squadron/355th Fighter Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
    Operated with markings: DP

    By 2018

    Transferred to 47th FS, 924th FW, AFRC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
    Operated with markings: DP, Lil Abner

    5 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: on approach to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ

    19 November 2022


    Photographer: Cassidy Cristello
    Notes: Sitting on the Davis-Monthan ramp during a cold November afternoon
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    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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