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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:80-0192 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-542
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 80-0192...
    Latest Owner or Location:163rd Fighter Squadron Indiana ANG, Fort Wayne, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    Circa 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 80-0192.

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Yeovilton.

    23 May 1987


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-10A Thunderbolt II of 92nd Tactical Fighter Squadron/81st Tactical Fighter Wing on display at the 1987 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    By May 1987

    Based with 92nd Tactical Fighter Squadron/81st Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk.

    13 June 1992


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-10A Thunderbolt, callsign Bison 31, of 92nd Fighter Squadron/81st Fighter Wing at the 1992 Air Tattoo International at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire.

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AC0189.

    Markings Applied: WR 81 TFW
    Europe one camouflage.

    12 March 1999

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 80-0192.
    Returned to active service.

    Converted to an A-10C.

    Transferred to 163rd Fighter Squadron Indiana ANG, Fort Wayne, IN.

    From 8 July 2013 to 1 August 2016

    Deployed to Sliac, Slovakia for Exercise Slovak Warthog.
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