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83-1126 was not with the 308th. It was a 309th bird. The 308th has been a block 42 squadron. IIRC 126 went to depot for falcon star upgrades just after I arrived at Luke in '06. It never came back though, and from what I was told, depot had discovered a burn through in the engine bay and it was sent to AMARC. 83-1177 was also a 309th bird, not 308th. Worked on both of these jets while I was at the 309th. 177 was a bad actor though! Had constant radio problems. Would be interested to know where these jets went as well.

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Raptor_DCTR wrote:

83-1126 was not with the 308th. It was a 309th bird. The 308th has been a block 42 squadron. IIRC 126 went to depot for falcon star upgrades just after I arrived at Luke in '06. It never came back though, and from what I was told, depot had discovered a burn through in the engine bay and it was sent to AMARC. 83-1177 was also a 309th bird, not 308th. Worked on both of these jets while I was at the 309th. 177 was a bad actor though! Had constant radio problems. Would be interested to know where these jets went as well.

I'm not sure why we had 83-1126 as the 308th, I know they are a block 42 squadron so must not have been thinking on that one. I have no record of it going to AMARC. Thanks!

Corrections:

F-16C:
83-1126 308th FS - 308th FS was wrong of coarse - was w/o and went to AMARC (or scrapped?)
83-1137 unknown - w/ Lockheed used to fly chase for the F-22.
84-1234 unknown - w/ Lockheed
84-1256 unknown - w/ Lockheed
84-1277 309th FS - still at Luke AFB, but now with 62nd FS.
84-1313 unknown - w/ Lockheed
85-1437 61st FS - still at Luke but with what squadron, not the 61st.
85-1443 61st FS - Private message stated whent to AMARG

F-16D:
83-1177 308th FS - not ever with 308th FS, instead went to the 195th FS.
84-1397 309th FS - now with the 195th FS

Henrik wrote:

Hello again,

Can any of You guys tell me the city names - "City of ....." - assigned to the following AL ANG Vipers, please?!

87-0271
87-0283
87-0342

Thanks a lot,

Henrik.

87-0271 is named "City of Fort Payne".

Cheers,

Henrik.

It seems that the Jersey devils have started to apply new markings to their "Small Mouth" Block-30s.

Seen during the recent held Red Flag-Alaska 11-2 exercise;

Me likes

It´s not bad, Niels, but I kinda liked the old one, too Smile

132FW 124FS to loose their Vipers in favour of MQ1/9 latest 2013 according to latest AF white paper announced on Feb 3rd 2012.

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