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    Airframe Family: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger / F-106 Delta Dart
    Latest Model:F-102A-55-CO Delta Dagger
    Last Military Serial:56-1017 USAF
    Compressed ID:Convair F-102A-55-CO sn 56-1017 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-102A-55-CO.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-1017.

    Circa 1957

    Transferred to 2nd Fighter-Interceptor, Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group, Suffolk County AFB, Westhampton, NY.

    Circa 1959

    Transferred to 48th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Langley AFB, VA.

    1959


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Taken during an open house at an unidentified USAF base.

    1 April 1960


    Photographer: NASA
    Notes: Astronaut Virgil Grissom standing beside F-102 56-1017 from the 48th Fighter Interceptor Squadron on the flight line at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.

    Circa 1961

    Transferred to 199th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (ANG), 154th Fighter Wing, Hickham AFB, HI.

    Circa 1962

    Transferred to 182nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (ANG), 149th Fighter-Interceptor Group, Kelly AFB, TX.

    Circa 1966

    Transferred to 196th Fighter Interceptor Squadron ANG), 163rd Fighter Group, Ontario, CA.

    25 May 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number FJ132.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By August 1989

    Loaned to 28 BW/MU, Ellsworth AFB, SD.
    Kept in storage for restoration.

    To South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, SD.
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    2015

    Placed on display.

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Mike Henniger
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