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Good news, this grand lady is indeed going to be saved and preserved! So no worries about her being destroyed.

Insted of sending this 7000 hour bird to Davis Monthan where it will be parted out, converted to a drone aircraft or simply left there forgotten, why not keep this aircraft as a gate guard and a reminder to all how this squadron took good care of it to allow it to exceed and nearly double its 4000 hour service life. There will be plenty of other F-16C's available for Davis Monthan, but the ones that are special like this bird and four other F-16C's that are mig and Serg Galeb killers (1 F-16C shot down 3 Galebs in February 1994) should be preserved in museums. The 3 Galeb killer should be sent to the museum in Seattle near the Boeing plant where a F-4C triple Mig killer is located. A Mig-29 killing F-16C should be in the National Museum of the Air Force and the F-16D that killed an Iraq Mig-25 using the AIM-120 missile for the first time should be at the Udvar Hazy Museum next to a F-4J single Mig killer of the Vietnam war.