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    Airframe Family: North American F-100 Super Sabre
    Latest Model:GF-100C Super Sabre
    Last Military Serial:54-1784 USAF
    Construction Number:217-45
    Compressed ID:NA GF-100C sn 54-1784 USAF cn 217-4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington Normal Airport, Bloomington, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    6 August 1955

    Constructed as a F-100C-5-NA by North American at Inglewood, California, USA.
    Factory roll out

    8 September 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-1784.

    Transferred to NAMIC (Air Materiel Command), Inglewood, CA.

    20 September 1955

    Transferred to 450th Fighter-Day Wing (Tactical Air Command), Foster AFB, TX.

    October 1955

    Transferred to 3345th Technical Training Wing (Air Training Command), Chanute AFB, IL.

    1 January 1959

    Transferred to Chanute Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB.

    28 February 1963

    Transferred to 3345th Maintenance and Support Group, CTTC, Chanute AFB.

    28 February 1963

    Redesignated as GF-100C.

    Circa 1970


    Photographer: USAF photo
    Notes: Photographed at Chanute AFB, IL

    September 1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.
    Dropped from inventory by transfer to museum program.

    1974

    Placed on display.
    Thunderbird Air Park, Chanute AFB, IL.

    By 1984

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1984

    Loaned to Mountain Home AFB, ID.
    For display.

    1989

    Loaned to Thunderbird Air Park, Chanute AFB, IL.

    1993

    Loaned to Octave Chanute Aviation Center, Chanute AFB (formerly), Rantoul, IL.
    The Super Sabre never left Chanute AFB and was transferred to the museum.

    1993

    Placed on display with Chanute Air Museum, Chanute AFB (formerly), Rantoul, IL.
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    By 19 September 1995

    Markings Applied: U.S. AIR FORCE, 54784
    Painted in Thunderbirds markings.

    19 September 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Octave Chanute Aviation Center

    3 August 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Octave Chanute Aviation Museum

    23 August 2009

    Loaned to Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington Normal Airport, Bloomington, IL.
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    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Prairie Aviation Museum

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Prairie Aviation Museum

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Prairie Aviation Museum
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Chanute Air Museum
    Friends of the Super Sabre
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Information Exchange by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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