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    Airframe Family: Lockheed F-22 Raptor
    Latest Model:YF-22A Raptor
    Last Military Serial:87-0700 USAF
    Construction Number:3997
    Last Civil Registration:N22YF
    Compressed ID:Lockheed YF-22A sn 87-0700 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YF-22A.
    Article PAV-1

    17 January 1990

    To Lockheed Corporation, Burbank, CA with new c/r N22YF.

    14 August 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX22YF (YF-22A, 3997) issued.

    29 August 1990

    Factory rollout.

    29 September 1990

    First flight.
    Landed Edwards AFB, CA.

    Circa October 1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 87-0700 and operated with these markings: YF-22, N22YF.

    Circa October 1990

    Transferred to 6511th Test Squadron, Edwards, AFB, CA.

    14 October 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Lockheed Open Day Marietta, Ga

    By April 1997

    Markings Applied: WA, 86-022
    Marked with bogus ID for trip to NMUSAF.

    May 1997

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    From 1997 to 1998

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: YF-22, N22YF

    1998

    Placed on display.

    13 August 1998


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    13 August 1998


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Now at the Annex

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    2009

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 95 ABW/MU, Edwards AFB, CA.

    2009

    Placed on display with Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, CA.
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    By 2010

    Restoration started.

    30 September 2013

    Civil registration, N22YF, cancelled.

    1 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX22YF (YF-22A, 3997) issued.

    4 May 2015

    Civil registration, N22YF, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airliners.Net
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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