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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter / T-38 Talon / Canadair CF-116
    Latest Model:T-38A Talon
    Last Military Serial:963 NASA
    Construction Number:N.5116
    Last Civil Registration:N963NA
    Compressed ID:Northrop T-38A sn 963 NASA cn N.511...
    Latest Owner or Location:California Science Center, Los Angeles, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-38A.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-1603.

    Circa 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 591603.

    3 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 591603 - QT-38A Talon - US Navy - China Lake / Naval Weapons Center. One of many ex-USAF Talons transferred to the US Navy and converted to QT-38 drones. Later transferred to NASA

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 963.
    Assigned to NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), Ellington Field, TX.

    19 October 1990

    To NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX with new c/r N963NA.

    To Northrop Grumman, El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA.
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    To Western Museum of Flight, Torrance Municipal Airport-Zamperini Field, Los Angeles, CA.
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    26 September 2015


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: Now at Western Museum of Flight, Torrance-Zemperini Field CA, far compound.

    18 April 2024

    To California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA.
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    18 April 2024


    Photographer: Roger Lee
    Notes: Arrived at the California Science Center in Exposition Park Los Angeles. Temporarily outside next to the space shuttle Endeavour during construction of the new exhibit. It will be part of an indoor exhibit upon completion of the museum.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Roger Lee
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