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Airframe Details for F-16 #57-0496

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Aircraft: 57-0496
	LM Aero T/V	3203
	Plant	Lockheed Marietta Plant
	Local C/N
	Delivered
	Current
	Status	[]

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Aircraft History

Date	Status	Local S/N	Airforce/Unit	Version	Name	Info

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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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Errors and Omissions

Oct 23, 2022 - 09:19 AM

Final disposition: China Lake?

I do not believe this aircraft ended up at AMARC. One of the DC130s was used for a live weapons test in 2003 (I know this, my father was the project engineer for the shoot.) Based on available information, I have narrowed it down to frame -461 or -469 (this one.) Web sources show -461 as being intact and still in its drone paint scheme, and more than one source say that -496 was given to Weapons Survivability Lab, China Lake, who performed the test. I highly believe this is correct, and the aircraft would not have been in any condition to move to AMARC since then.

Mar 27, 2023 - 07:35 PM

570496

This acft is at China Lake.

The one at AMARG with CF055 is 570497

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