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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-89 Scorpion
    Latest Model:F-89J Scorpion
    Last Military Serial:52-1858 USAF
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-89J sn 52-1858 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:116th FIS, 141st FIG, Washington ANG, Geiger Field, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-89D-35-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    23 July 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-1858.

    27 July 1954

    To 18th FIS, 514th Air Defense Group, Minneapolis-Saint. Paul IAP, MN.

    12 September 1954

    Base of operations changed.
    Ladd AFB, AK.

    Circa 1955

    Transferred to 318th FIS, 528th Air Defense Group, Presque Isle AFB, ME.

    By December 1957

    Converted to a F-89J.

    Circa December 1957

    Transferred to 321st FIS, 326th Fighter Group, Paine Field, WA.

    Circa 1958


    Photographer: Lt. Bert Nichols, F-89 RIO

    Circa June 1960

    Transferred to 116th FIS, 141st FIG, Washington ANG, Geiger Field, WA.
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