US Air Force - ANG F-16s



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USAF F-16C block 25 #84-1289 with Rome Laboratory titles on this site of the tail. The other side of the aircraft has regular NY ANG markings. The aircraft is made up of at least four different aircraft, but the main one is 84-1289. Note the small stabilo and the C-model tail base!?!? The aircraft was used as test bed for electro-magnetic field tests. [Photo by Philippe Colin]

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  • Anonymous on 2006-Feb-22 04:06:09 Anonymous said

    There's a reason why it's made up of different F-16s

    84-1289 crashed on landing at Hahn AB, Germany in 1989. Don't ask me how...but the pilot managed to come in way too low, clipped the fence surrounding the base, managed to get it back up on the runway, but managed to bounce it several times. The nose cone was smashed up, the wing tanks were obliterated, the landing gear collapsed, and the airframe broke just behind the canopy. I spent a lot of hours helping the one depot person that Hill AFB sent gut the fuel system and pull the wings off of it. Poor thing!

    Glen Shook
    Fuel Systems Repair
    Hahn AB Germany 86-91
    Spangdahlem AB Germany 91-94
    Tyndall AFB FL 94-2001
  • madlives on 2006-Mar-11 02:52:32 madlives said

    84-1289

    I was there the day this aircraft crashed, the pilot pushed off the canopy and jumped out once the jet stopped. I know myself and other 496th people picked up the pieces including the canopy which were than transported to the main hanger in the 10th AMU. There it sat until the depot team came and took it apart and shipped it back to the states.

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  • Aircraft Database: F-16 # 5C-126

  • Aircraft Database: F-16 #84289

    Used as a recruiting aid with the New York ANG, right side of aircraft is Rome Lab markings, left side is regular NY ANG markings with '174 FW'.

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