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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-111
    Latest Model:FB-111A
    Last Military Serial:68-0267 USAF
    Construction Number:B1-39
    Compressed ID:GD FB-111A sn 68-0267 USAF cn B1-39...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a FB-111A.

    1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 68-0267.

    11 November 1970

    Transferred to 340th Bombardment Group, Carswell AFB, TX.

    21 January 1971

    Transferred to 509th Bombardment Wing (Medium), Pease AFB, NH.

    From 19 July 1986 to 28 July 1986

    Deployed to RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk under Exercise Tea Party. Took part in the Tactical Fighter Meet at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.

    3 March 1988

    Transferred to 528th Bombardment Squadron, 380th Bombardment Wing (Medium), Plattsburg AFB, NY.
    Operated with markings: Black Widow

    October 1990


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Houston- Ellington Field, TX

    10 July 1991

    Last flight.
    Flew to Offutt AFB, NE. Last of four FB-111A leaving Plattsburg AFB to retirement.

    10 July 1991

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    July 1991

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    July 1991

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.
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    1997

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Moved to new facility while under construction.

    16 May 1998

    Placed on display with Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    New museum opened.

    2001

    Loaned to Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    22 June 2015

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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     Glenn Chatfield
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    Peter Nicholson
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