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    Airframe Family: North American F-100 Super Sabre
    Latest Model:F-100C-25-NA Super Sabre
    Last Military Serial:54-2005 USAF
    Construction Number:217-266
    Compressed ID:NA F-100C-25-NA sn 54-2005 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Iowa Air National Guard - 185th Fighter Wing, Sioux City, Iowa

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    Dates

    Event

    From Unknown to 4 January 1956

    Constructed as a F-100C-25-NA by North American at Inglewood, California, USA.

    23 January 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-2005.

    23 January 1956

    To NAMIC, Air Material Command, Inglewood, CA.

    20 February 1956

    Transferred to WRAR, Air Materiel Command.

    25 May 1956

    Transferred to 45th Fighter Day Squadron, 316th Air Division, Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco.

    21 July 1956

    Transferred to 461st TFS. 36th TFW, Hahn AB, West Germany.

    23 July 1958

    Transferred to 7272D ABW, Wheelus AB, Libya.

    23 November 1958

    Transferred to 461st TFS, 36th TFW, Wheelus AB, Libya.

    3 April 1959

    Transferred to ACFCF, Chateaureux AB, France.

    23 April 1959

    Transferred to 36th TFW, Bitburg AB, West Germany.

    9 February 1960

    Transferred to ACFCF, Chateaureux AB, France.

    12 March 1960

    Transferred to 36th TFW, Bitburg AB, West Germany.

    22 September 1960

    Transferred to CAFMS, Madrid, Spain.

    20 October 1960

    Transferred to 36th TFW, Bitburg AB, West Germany.

    16 May 1961

    Transferred to 4440th ADG, Langley AFB, VA.

    3 June 1961


    Photographer: 185th ARW, Iowa ANG
    Notes: Original caption: Still painted with the markings of the historic 36th Fighter Wing, a U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Saber, tail 54-2005 arrives at the Iowa Air National Guards 174th Tactical Fighter Squadron from Bitburg, Germany, June 3, 1961. The Iowa ANG Squadron is receiving the aircraft and being gained into Tactical Air Command as they transitioning from aerial reconnaissance.

    6 September 1962

    Transferred to LAICI, Sioux City ANGB, IA.

    18 April 1963

    Transferred to NAMIC, Air Material Command, Inglewood, CA.

    3 August 1963

    Transferred to 110th TFS, 131st TFG, Lambert Saint. Louis ANGB, MO.

    16 August 1963

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 185th TFW, Iowa ANG, Sioux City ANGB, IA.
    F-100C 54-2005 was the first F-100 delivered to the Iowa ANG at Sioux City.

    28 April 1966

    Transferred to SMAAR, McClellan AFB, CA.

    27 January 1968

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 185th TFW, Iowa ANG, Sioux City ANGB, IA.

    4 March 1968

    To 174th TFS, 185th TFW, Cannon AFB, NM.

    20 March 1968

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 185th TFW, Iowa ANG, Sioux City ANGB, IA.

    From 17 May 1968 to 21 November 1968

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 37th TFW, Phu Cat AB, South Vietnam.
    Operated with markings: HA
    Deployed to South Vietnam.

    From 25 November 1968 to 14 January 1969

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 37th TFW, Tainan AB, Taiwan.
    Operated with markings: HA

    From 14 January 1969 to 30 April 1969

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 37th TFW, Phu Cat AB, South Vietnam.

    12 May 1969

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 185th TFW, Iowa ANG, Sioux City ANGB, IA.

    29 September 1969

    Transferred to SMAAR, McClellan AFB, CA.

    3 December 1969

    Transferred to 174th TFS, 185th TFW, Iowa ANG, Sioux City ANGB, IA.

    By 1978

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    July 1978

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    July 1978

    Loaned to IA Ang (sioux City), 185 ARW/LGRR, Sioux City, IA.

    July 1978

    To Iowa Air National Guard-185th Fighter Wing, Sioux City, IA.
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    13 August 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    13 August 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    13 August 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    13 August 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin


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    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Friends of the Super Sabre
    National Museum of the United States Air Force

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    Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin

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