Forum: F-16 Spotting & Photography

Hey people, can anyone identify this F-16 or knows it's story? My hunch is that this is a F-16 made out of spare parts or one made for static testing. My school got if from the National Aerospace Laboratory. It doesn't have a type plate in the cockpit to identify it. Only the "serial" ECP350-A is printed all over it.

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Oh and all purple parts are made out of wood. XD

Looks like the "Metal Mockup", used to check fit and maintenance for internal equipment. All purple items are non-flyable. Sometimes purple parts will show up temporarily on production airplanes for fit checks before flight qualified hardware is available.

I think ECP (Engineering Change Proposal) 350 was a collection of many changes in production airplanes between Block 10 amd Block 15, around 1983-84. Among the airframe changes were the larger and completely redesigned horizontal tail and strengthened wing hardpoints for weapon and tank carriage.

The item you show is definitely not for static test. Static test components do not contain any internal systems, only structure.

I wonder if it is 78-0061 which we read about a few months ago being purchased by a school and given registry N324DC?

That would be the one purchased by the Crenshaw County Board of Education.

It does have block 40 and above landing light's...............That's all I noticed.

I saw the white box where the block 40 lights are but still wasn't convinced. But you saying it is making me second guess. I wonder if it is 89-2110?

Or it could be a combination of 78-0061 and 89-2110 to make one instructional airframe.

Jon wrote:

I saw the white box where the block 40 lights are but still wasn't convinced. But you saying it is making me second guess. I wonder if it is 89-2110?

Or it could be a combination of 78-0061 and 89-2110 to make one instructional airframe.

Don't think so seeing as this is a RNLAF owned "airframe" The cockpit instruments and the placing of the lower UFH antenna make me say it's a Block 15. But the landing lights are only in that place on the MLU in the RNLAF.

Enthusiast Joined: Jan 13, 2008 - 06:04 PM Posts: 72

Don't think so either. I remember seeing this mock-up around 2000 at the RNLAF technical school. Both 78-0061 and 89-2110 have been seen at their 'resting places' afterwards. Although given a thorough inspection at the time, I couldn't find any TVSN like number on it (apart from ECP 350 stencilled all over it...).

HTH,
Joris

This viper also came with an pre- PACER TAIL - tailend.....so it was not fitted with a dragshute but with another short tailend...

Btw...the 89-2110 is an F-16C Block 40, the RNLAF never had C-40`s, we did our own MLU on the A&B block 15`s

conclusion (?): block 15 body, block 40 lights, pre- PACER TAIL- tailend....what is this thing?? some kind of frankensteins monster???

It is dutch for sure.

ViperKeeper wrote:

It is dutch for sure.

true...and yesterday i also spotted mounting points for a LANTIRN system...soo this means that frankensteins monster can see very well in the dark??? Wink

kaasjager what's the name of your school?

the same as mine... Very Happy

Deltion College - aviation technicians (luchtvaarttechniek), zwolle, the netherlands

oh, cool! i wish i could go to a school with an f-16 just sittin around. well i plan on going to the us air force academy but i've still got two years to wait for that.

RamsteinPilot526 wrote:

oh, cool! i wish i could go to a school with an f-16 just sittin around. well i plan on going to the us air force academy but i've still got two years to wait for that.

Well, this is not really a F-16. It's a shell of a F-16. Most components are missing or replaced by wooden ones. You can't really do anything with it.

Forum: F-16 Spotting & Photography

Can anyone identify this F-16?