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    Airframe Family: North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
    Latest Model:OV-10A Bronco
    Last Military Serial:155401 USMC
    Construction Number:305-012
    Last Civil Registration:N409DF
    Compressed ID:North American Rockwell OV-10A sn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an OV-10A.

    Circa December 1993

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 155401.

    Transferred to VMO-4, NAS Atlanta, GA.

    Circa 1972


    Photographer: Phillip Huddleston
    Notes: Iwakuni, Japan Open House Day, early 1972

    By 9 June 1990

    Markings Applied: 501, MARINES, MU, 55401

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Atlanta Air Show

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Atlanta Air Show

    30 June 1990

    Markings Applied: 501, MU, 55401

    30 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Fl

    To US Forest Service with new c/r N409DF.

    16 September 1996

    To California Department. of Forestry/US Forest Service, Mather, CA keeping c/r N409DF.

    Based at California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    November 1996

    Markings Applied: 330
    Civil conversion carried out at Mather, CA. Finished in CDF markings.

    By 1996

    Operated as fire service #330 with markings: FIRE, CDF

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Hemet-Ryan Air Base, CA. as CDF-330.

    17 June 2007


    Photographer: Jerome Dawson
    Notes: Photo from airshow at Gillespie Field (SEE), California (KRNM). N409DF was based nearby at Ramona (RNM) at that time.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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