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Aircraft: 88-0485
LM Aero T/V 1C-87
Plant General Dynamics
Local C/N
Delivered USAF 88485
F-16C Block 40C
Current USAF 88485
F-16C Block 40C
Status [act]

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Aircraft History

Date Status Local S/N Airforce/Unit Version Name Info
23 Jan 1990 [act] 88485 F-16C Block 40C
28 Feb 1990 [act] 88485 USAF 34 TFS 'HL' F-16C Block 40C
01 Oct 1991 [act] 88485 USAF 34 FS 'HL' F-16C Block 40C
Sep 1994 [act] 88485 USAF 421 FS 'HL' F-16C Block 40C
Unknown [act] 88485 USAF 34 FS 'HL' F-16C Block 40C
Feb 2011 [act] 88485 USAF 175 FS F-16C Block 40C
09 Sep 2021 [act] 88485 USAF 175 FS F-16C Block 40C
Special characteristics:
  • Special Colorscheme
Special color scheme to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 175th FS.

Crew Chief Comments

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SSgt. Michael Gonzalez

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421st Fighter Squadron "Black Widows" , 2004 - 2005
NORDIE THE WAR HORSE- Solid Jet- Right wing tank was slow to feed when I was first assigned to it. Impounded twice for repeat/recur. Changed a tank, did an engine run everyday for a month. Turns out fuel shop CANN'd a bad FFP. They put in a new one in and she flew like a champ afterwards. Had a cabin pressure problem when she first got to Iraq in '04 but once the cabin pressure regulator was changed she was a code 1 machine. Flew 500+ hours on that deployment. Nordie had the mysterious B system steals from A system problem.

SSgt. Colin Danaher

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34th Fighter Squadron "Rams" , 2009 - 2010
First ACFT I was assigned to as DCC.


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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Errors and Omissions

Feb 05, 2014 - 09:10 PM
Rt external fuel tank

An FFP will not cause the right external tank to feed into the right wing slowly. FFP has nothing to do with the external feeding slow. Fuel Shop Hill afb 2001 - 2010





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