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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:80-0172 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-522
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 80-0172...
    Latest Owner or Location:74th Fighter Squadron/23rd Fighter Group, 23rd Wing, Moody AFB, GA

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    Dates

    Event

    1981

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    15 July 1981

    First flight.

    31 July 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 80-0172.

    10 August 1981

    Transferred to 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Bentwaters, England.
    Operated with markings: WR

    1987

    Converted to an OA-10A.

    By May 1989

    Transferred to 511th Tactical Fighter Squadron/10th Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Alconbury, England.
    Operated with markings: Jennie Mai, AR

    From 27 December 1990 to 8 June 1991

    Deployed to King Fahd Airport, Saudi Arabia, for combat in Operation Desert Storm.

    By July 1993

    Transferred to 55th Fighter Squadron/20th Fighter Wing, Shaw AFB, SC.
    Operated with markings: SW

    23 July 1993


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    23 July 1993


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    26 July 2000

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AC0224.
    For GPS modifications.

    27 September 2000

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 80-0172.

    From 27 September 2000 to July 2007

    To 75th Fighter Squadron/23rd Fighter Group, Pope AFB, NC.
    Markings added: FT

    By March 2002

    Deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan for combat in Operation Enduring Freedom.

    July 2007

    Base of operations changed.
    Moody AFB, GA.

    2008

    Converted to an A-10C.

    From September 2010 to April 2011

    Deployed to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan for combat.

    From 2011 to After October 2020

    Transferred to 74th Fighter Squadron/23rd Fighter Group, 23rd Wing, Moody AFB, GA.
    Operated with markings: FT

    24 April 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at Langley AFB, Virginia, U.S.A.
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