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    Airframe Family: General Dynamics F-111
    Latest Model:F-111F
    Last Military Serial:71-0891 USAF
    Construction Number:67
    Compressed ID:GD F-111F sn 71-0891 USAF cn 67
    Latest Owner or Location:HVF West, Tucson, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-111F.

    Circa 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 71-0891.

    1 June 1977

    Transferred to 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.

    By August 1982

    Transferred to 494th TFS, 48th TFW, RAF Lakenheath.
    Operated with markings: East Anglia, LN
    Yellow fin tip.

    11 August 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Transferred to 523rd FS, 27th FW, Cannon AFB, NM.
    Operated with markings: CC

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: F-111F, callsign Topcat 32, of the 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron/48th Tactical Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath on display at the 1990 Boscombe Down Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Airshow.

    10 April 1996

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number FV0272.

    To HVF West, Tucson, AZ.

    After 15 March 2011

    Scrapped.
    Reduced by HVF.
    This dossier is waiting for review by an editor.This airframe dossier was started by a contributor.
    An preliminary review of the submitted data is pending.
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    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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