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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-111
    Latest Model:F-111F
    Last Military Serial:70-2399 USAF
    Construction Number:F-38
    Compressed ID:GD F-111F sn 70-2399 USAF cn F-38
    Latest Owner or Location:HVF West, Tucson, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-111F.

    Circa 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 70-2399.

    By March 1980

    Transferred to 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.

    By March 1988

    Transferred to 492 TFS, 48 TFW, RAF Lakenheath.
    Noted at RAF Lakenheath on 24 March 1988.

    Markings Applied: LN,
    Blue fin tip band.

    By November 1995

    Transferred to 523 FS, 23 FW, Cannon AFB, NM.

    By November 1995

    Markings Applied: CC,
    Blue fin tip band.

    5 November 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Cecil Field Airshow

    From 19 June 1996 to 27 May 2010

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number FV0285.

    27 May 2010

    To HVF West, Tucson, AZ.

    Scrapped.
    At HVF West, Tucson.
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     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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