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Aircraft History
Date
Status
Local S/N
Airforce/Unit
Version
Name
Info
16 May 1990
[act]
88538
F-16C
Block 40D
Jun 1990
[act]
88538
USAF 69 TFS
'MY'
F-16C
Block 40D
01 Oct 1991
[act]
88538
USAF 69 FS
'MY'
F-16C
Block 40D
Feb 1992
[act]
88538
USAF 308 FS
'HS'
F-16C
Block 40D
Jun 1994
[act]
88538
USAF 36 FS
'OS'
F-16C
Block 40D
Jul 1998
[act]
88538
USAF 36 FS
'OS'
F-16C
Block 40D
"Strange Luck"
Special characteristics:
Nose Art
Very short term nose art. Sent on a TDY to Singapore as a spare but ended up being operated extensively when primary aircraft broke. So 'Strange Luck' nose art was added but during one of the sorties, the aircraft past mach one and the nose art was wrecked.
Flew code one with me all 3 times I launched it so far...then sh*tted out when I went to phase for a week, and start system completely failed, I plan to make this jet special to me because this is the 1st jet with a real mission (to shoot and bomb the chongers!) and I plan to dedicate and put the name of a marine in my brother's unit in Afghanistan who died. It will say "To: Lcpl Chris Baltazar: You became an angel to protect your brothers from above and drop hell on the Chongers below"
Jet was uneventful, typical jet. The tour was okay and could have been better. I didn't make the most out of it and regret that.
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
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