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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:81-0951 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-646
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 81-0951...
    Latest Owner or Location:303rd Fighter Squadron/442nd Fighter Wing (AFRC), Whiteman AFB, MO

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    21 October 1982

    First flight.

    5 November 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 81-0951.

    From November 1982 to After March 1986

    Transferred to 91st Tactical Fighter Squadron/81st Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Bentwaters, England.
    Operated with markings: WR

    From By 1987 to After June 2009

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

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-10A Thunderbolt, callsign Panther 11, of Spangdahlems 81st Fighter Squadron/52nd Fighter Wing on the flight-line at the 1997 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    Circa January 2006

    Converted to an A-10C.

    From By October 2011 to After March 2019

    Transferred to 303rd Fighter Squadron/442nd Fighter Wing (AFRC), Whiteman AFB, MO.
    Operated with markings: KC
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