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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10A Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:78-0699 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-319
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10A sn 78-0699...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    Circa February 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 78-0699.

    By June 1989

    Transferred to 353rd Fighter Squadron/354th Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach AFB, SC.
    Operated with markings: MB

    From Circa January 1991 to Circa February 1991

    Flew 64 missions in Operation Desert Storm, from King Fahd International Airport, Saudi Arabia.

    9 July 1992

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AC0078.

    24 July 2000

    To Lockheed Aircraft.
    Used for spare parts.

    By 28 August 2000

    To DMI (Dross Metals) Aviation Yard, Tucson, AZ.

    November 2012

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    18 September 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    18 September 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    10 March 2024


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: showing starboard side,
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Lawson
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