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Airframe Details for F-16 #88-0426

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Aircraft Profile

Aircraft: : 88-0426
	LM Aero T/V	1C-28
	Plant	General Dynamics
	Local C/N
	Delivered	USAF 88426 F-16C Block 40B
	Current	USAF 88426 F-16C Block 40B
	Status	[w/o]

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Aircraft History

Date

Status

Local S/N

Airforce/Unit

Version

Name

Info

30 Sep 1989

[act]

88426

F-16C Block 40B

Oct 1989

[act]

88426

USAF 34 TFS 'HL'

F-16C Block 40B

01 Oct 1991

[act]

88426

USAF 34 FS 'HL'

F-16C Block 40B

Jan 1994

[act]

88426

USAF 421 FS 'HL'

F-16C Block 40B

Nov 1995

[act]

88426

USAF 4 FS 'HL'

F-16C Block 40B

28 Nov 1995

[msh]

88426

USAF 4 FS 'HL'

F-16C Block 40B

Comments:
Crashed near the Dugway Providing Grounds, some 130 miles southwest of Hill AFB, Utah. The pilot, Captain Christopher Rappa, who was on a training mission ejected safely. The aircraft had just been transfered to the 4th FS from the 421st FS a few weeks earlier and new paint scheme applied. Cause of crash was simply a stall at 14,000 feet and aircraft pancaked onto the ground upside down. With no forward volocity at the time of impact, the crash site was little larger then the F-16 itself.

28 Nov 1995

[w/o]

88426

USAF 4 FS 'HL'

F-16C Block 40B

Crew Chief Comments

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	TSgt. Daniel Palzewicz	Crew Chief Profile
	34th Fighter Squadron "Rams" , 1989 - 1994
	Great Jet and Great place to be...
	SSgt. Damon Dunsmore	Crew Chief Profile
	4th Fighter Squadron "Fightin' Fuujins" , 1995 - 1998
	Ahh, Hill. As a single SrA/SSgt, I volunteered for every TDY I could get my hands on - no matter what the squadron. 3 Red Flags, 2 Green Flags, 1 Crash Recovery Duty in Nellis. Went to Al Jabber, somewhere else, and Kuwait. Somehow got picked to do William Tell 96 (Team ACC), immediately followed by the coolest TDY ever - Santiago, Chile, where Lockheed spared NO expense (and there were many) in trying to sell the Chileans the F-16. Crewed 88-0512, 88-0426 (crashed, pilot error), 88-0537.

Abbreviations and symbols:

[act]	Active	[msh]	Involved in Mishap	[sto]	Stored (e.g. at AMARC)
[cld]	Cancelled order	[o/o]	On Order	T/V	LM Aero Type/Version (Construction) number
[emb]	Embargoed	[pre]	Preserved (museum, gateguard)	[w/o]	Write-off
[i/a]	Instructional Airframe	[scr]	Scrapped		Photo Available

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TSgt. Daniel Palzewicz

SSgt. Damon Dunsmore