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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:81-0980 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-675
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 81-0980...
    Latest Owner or Location:354th Fighter Squadron/355th Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    28 March 1983

    First flight.

    31 March 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 81-0980.

    April 1983

    Transferred to 511th Tactical Fighter Squadron/81st Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Bentwaters, England.
    Operated with markings: WR

    From By July 1995 to Circa August 2012

    Transferred to 81st Fighter Squadron/52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, West Germany.
    Operated with markings: SP

    14 September 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-10A Thunderbolt, callsign Big Dog 2, of Spangdahlems 81st Fighter Squadron/52nd Fighter Wing on display at the 1996 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    14 September 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-10A Thunderbolt, callsign Big Dog 2, of Spangdahlems 81st Fighter Squadron/52nd Fighter Wing on display at the 1996 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: C Peter Russell-Smith
    Notes: Photographed at RAF Fairford.

    2005

    Converted to an A-10C.

    From May 2010 to 27 September 2010

    Deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.

    By June 2015

    Transferred to 74th Fighter Squadron/23rd Fighter Group, Moody AFB, GA.
    Operated with markings: FT

    By March 2019

    Transferred to 354th Fighter Squadron/355th Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
    Operated with markings: DM

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA

    29 June 2019

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA
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