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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:F-86H-10-NH Sabre
    Last Military Serial:53-1525 USAF
    Construction Number:203-297
    Compressed ID:NA F-86H-10-NH sn 53-1525 USAF cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-86H-10-NH by North American at Columbus, Ohio, USA.

    21 October 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-1525.

    To 3595th CCTW, Nellis AFB, NV.

    Transferred to 53rd FIS, Bitburg Air Base, West Germany.

    Transferred to 429th FBS, 474th FBW, Clovis AFB (later Cannon AFB), NM.

    Transferred to 448th FBW, Hensley Field, TX.

    Circa 1962

    Transferred to 119th TFS, 177th TFG, New Jersey ANG, Atlantic City Airport, NJ.

    By January 1965

    Transferred to 141st TFS, 108th TFG, New Jersey ANG, McGuire AFB, NJ.

    January 1965

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number FC0010.

    23 January 1969

    Declared surplus.

    Circa 1970


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Pima Museum

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1974

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: This is a confusing one. This photo was allegedly taken at the Carlsbad, NM, Airshow circa 1978. According to its documented history, this Sabre was WFU in the mid/late 1960s and given to Pima in 1974, on loan from the NMUSAF Loan Program. Would Pima have trucked this jet however many miles to Carlsbad, NM, for an airshow? How did it get there is sadly a mystery. It is obviously 1970s based on the F-15 Eagle in the background.

    Placed on display with Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: FU-525
    In the markings of 474th Fighter Bomber Wing, Clovis AFB, New Mexico, 1954.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Robert Nichols
    Max Sabin
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