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    Airframe Family: Fairchild SA-226 Merlin / SA-226/SA-227 Metro
    Latest Model:RC-26B Condor
    Last Military Serial:94-0261 USAF
    Construction Number:DC-859B
    Last Civil Registration:N6135Y
    Compressed ID:Fairchild RC-26B sn 94-0261 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:111th Reconnaissance Squadron/147th Attack Wing (ANG), Ellington JRB Base, Houston, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-26B.

    1994

    To Fairchild Aircraft Inc, San Antonio, TX with new c/r N30273.

    February 1995

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 94-0261.

    April 1997

    To United States Air Force with new c/r N261CD.

    By 1 July 1998

    Transferred to 139th Airlift Squadron, 109th Airlift Wing (ANG), Stratton ANG Station, NY.

    Circa July 2000

    Converted to a RC-26B.

    21 July 2000

    To Air Cerberus Inc, Arlington VA with new c/r N6135Y.

    Circa July 2000

    Transferred to 138th Fighter Squadron, 174th Wing, New York ANG, Hancock ANGB, Syracuse, NY.

    After May 2012

    Transferred to 150th Special Operations Wing (ANG), Kirkland AFB, Albuquerque, NM.
    Operated with markings: 40261

    By 2016

    Transferred to 132nd Wing (ANG), Des Moines, IA.
    Operated with markings: 261
    Callsign HAWKI261.

    23 August 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS Fort Worth JRB, TX. as an RC-26B.

    23 September 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Alliance Airport, TX.

    By March 2017

    Transferred to 214th Reconnaissance Group (ANG), Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

    11 April 2017


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    11 April 2017


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    By January 2018

    Transferred to 111th Reconnaissance Squadron/147th Attack Wing (ANG), Ellington JRB Base, Houston, TX.
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     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
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    North Star Post
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Tom Tessier
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