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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:Sabre 5
    Last Military Serial:23238 RCAF
    Construction Number:1028
    Last Civil Registration:N86EB
    Compressed ID:Canadair Sabre 5 sn 23238 RCAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Seymour Johnson AFB, Goldsboro, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Sabre 5 by Canadair at Montreal, QC.

    29 April 1954

    First flight.

    15 June 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 23238.

    16 June 1954

    To No. 1 (F) OTU, RCAF Station Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada.

    30 June 1958

    Transferred to Central Flying School, RCAF Station Trenton, Quinte West, ON.
    Operated with markings: SU 238

    27 May 1959

    Base of operations changed.
    RCAF Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

    14 November 1962

    Transferred to Golden Hawks, RCAF Station Trenton, Quinte West, ON.

    10 October 1963

    Transferred to Sabre Transition Unit, RCAF Station Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada.

    Circa 1972

    To Maritime Aircraft Repair and Overhaul/Targetair Ltd/Dave McEwen, Moncton, NB.

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to Moncton-McEwen Field, and stored there dismantled.

    October 1984

    Stored by Flight Systems Inc. in a compound at Mojave, CA.

    21 November 1984

    To Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA.

    From January 1985 to By 1986

    To Southern California Aviation Inc, Corona Del Mar, CA with new c/r N86EB.

    10 December 1986

    To Department of The Air Force, Wright Patterson, OH keeping c/r N86EB.

    10 December 1986

    Civil registration, N86EB, cancelled.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Traded to the USAFM.
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    By 1992

    Placed on display with Pope AFB, Fayetteville, NC.
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    1992


    Photographer: Dick Logan via Fargo Air Museum

    Loaned to 4 FW/HO, Seymour Johnson AFB, NC.

    Placed on display with Seymour Johnson AFB, Goldsboro, NC.
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    Markings Applied: Billie, 112972

    7 November 2011


    Photographer: Dick Logan via Fargo Air Museum

    28 November 2015


    Photographer: Luis Sanchez
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Canadian Aircraft Serials Personal Information Resource by Canadian Warplane Heritage
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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