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Airframe Details for F-16 #88-0038

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Aircraft: 88-0038
LM Aero T/V 6H-113
Plant SABCA
Local C/N B-195
Delivered BAF FA-113
F-16A Block 15AC OCU
Current BAF FA-113
F-16A Block 15AC OCU
Status [pre]
More info on the restoration of this F-16 can be found on: http://www.echo-models.net/PhotoF16.htm and of the preservation as gate guard: http://musee.1wing.free.fr/F-16/imgcol/contact_1.htm


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Aircraft History

Date Status Local S/N Airforce/Unit Version Name Info
30 Jun 1989 [act] FA-113 F-16A Block 15AC OCU
Nov 1989 [act] FA-113 BAF 1 sqn F-16A Block 15AC OCU
May 1992 [act] FA-113 BAF 23 sqn F-16A Block 15AC OCU
12 May 1995 [msh] FA-113 BAF 23 sqn F-16A Block 15AC OCU
The aircraft was one of three F-16s from 10 W being flown to the Czech air base at Hradec-Kralove to take part in the Czech IAF. On arrival, in heavy rain with a lot of standing water on the runway, the leader, Lt Col R. Theys, landed uneventfully and was followed by the landing of the pair. However, as the pair touched down in the beginning of the runway, they began to aquaplane under heavy braking. With 4,000 ft of runway left the leader ordered a go-around and lit up his afterburner, throwing a wall of exhaust and water at the number two and three aircraft. The pilot, Lt Anne-Marrie Jansen (the only female Belgian AF fighter pilot), was still happy with her braking performance and decided not to go around and attempted to steer off to the left hand taxiway at the end of the runway, because there was no arrestor cable nor overrun at the runway. She was going too fast and exited the runway at high speed. This forced her to eject as the aircraft started overturning on its back, tearing off the tail fin and smashing the nose cone. The airplane never caught fire. She only suffered minor injuries.
01 Apr 1999 [pre] FA-113 F-16A Block 15AC OCU
Beauvechain Museum
Sep 2001 [pre] FA-113 F-16A Block 15AC OCU
Brustem Museum
Oct 2003 [pre] FA-113 F-16A Block 15AC OCU
Beauvechain Museum
17 Jun 2010 [pre] FA-113 F-16A Block 15AC OCU
Gateguard at Beauvechain AB.

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