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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-89 Scorpion
    Latest Model:F-89J Scorpion
    Last Military Serial:53-2453 USAF
    Last Civil Registration:N16565
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-89J sn 53-2453 USAF cr N...
    Latest Owner or Location:Heritage Flight Museum, Skagit Regional Bay View Airport, Burlington, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-89D-50-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-2453.

    Converted to a F-89J.

    From 1966 to By 1990

    To District 1. School, Helena, MT with new c/r N16565.

    23 October 1988


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Helena, MT.

    18 June 1991

    To Helena Vocational Technical Center, Helena, MT keeping c/r N16565.

    In the inventory of The University of Montana-Helena College of Technology, Helena Regional Airport, Helena, MT.
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    Used an an instrucitonal airframe while kept in original USAF markings.

    2006


    Photographer: Andy West

    By 2 September 2009

    To Heritage Flight Museum, Bellingham International Airport, Bellingham, WA.
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    3 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo in torrential rain at Bellingham Airport

    To Heritage Flight Museum, Skagit Regional Bay View Airport, Burlington, WA.
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    15 May 2017

    Civil registration, N16565, cancelled.

    21 June 2023


    Photographer: Chris Wood
    Notes: Painted as 54-0248
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Patrick Carry
    Terry Fletcher
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