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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-16
    Latest Model:F-16N Block 30E Fighting Falcon
    Last Military Serial:163576 USN
    Construction Number:3M-21
    Compressed ID:GD F-16N Block 30E sn 163576 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:USN NAS Fallon, Fallon, Nevada

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-16N Block 30E.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 86-1694.
    Allocated USAF serial for administration purposes, built for USN.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163576.

    By January 1990

    Transferred to VF-43, NAS Oceana, VA.

    By January 1990

    Markings Applied: 02, 02

    5 January 1990


    Photographer: not known

    By 13 November 1992

    Markings Applied: 02, S, 02

    13 November 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By July 1995

    Loaned to USN NAS Fallon, Fallon, NV.
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    9 October 2012


    Photographer: Bert Voskuil

    20 July 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
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     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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