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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:79-0117 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-381
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 79-0117...
    Latest Owner or Location:303rd Fighter Squadron/442nd Fighter Wing, Whiteman AFB, MO

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    Dates

    Event

    1980

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    17 July 1980

    First flight.

    27 July 1980

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0117.

    Circa 1982

    Transferred to 303rd Fighter Squadron/442nd Fighter Wing, Richards Gebaur AFB, MO.
    Operated with markings: MO, AF79-117, AFRES

    1985


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Richards-Gebaur AFB, Kansas City, MO.

    1985


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Richards-Gebaur AFB, Kansas City, MO.

    1 April 1994

    Base of operations changed.
    Whiteman AFB, MO.

    1 April 1994

    Markings Applied: KC, AF79-117, AFRC

    17 October 2002

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AC0322.
    For wing modifications.

    30 October 2002

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 79-0117.

    30 October 2002

    Transferred to 303rd Fighter Squadron/442nd Fighter Wing, Whiteman AFB, MO.

    2007

    Converted to an A-10C.

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    From April 2014 to December 2014

    Deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan.

    From January 2018 to April 2018

    Deployed to Kandahar AB, Afghanistan for combat.
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     Robert Bourlier
    Glenn Chatfield
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