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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10A Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:78-0707 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-327
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10A sn 78-0707...
    Latest Owner or Location:190th FS, 124th Wing, Idaho ANG, Boise, ID

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    Circa 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 78-0707.

    April 1984

    Transferred to 138th Tactical Fighter Squadron, New York ANG, Syracuse.

    Transferred to 118th TFS CTANG, Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT.

    Markings Applied: CT, AF78 707, 707
    Black Lightning bolt on vertical stabelizer, lightning bolt beneath cockpit.

    2002

    Airplane modified to employ the Lightning AT Targeting POD to drop 500# GBU-12 Paveway laser guided bombs.

    17 April 2003


    Photographer: Major Brian Boeding
    Notes: Prince Hassan AB, Jordan. Squadrons mission to destroy SCUD launchers in Western Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom.

    17 April 2003


    Photographer: Major Brian Boeding
    Notes: Prince Hassan AB, Jordan. Squadrons mission to destroy SCUD launchers in Western Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom.

    17 April 2003


    Photographer: Major Brian Boeding
    Notes: Prince Hassan AB, Jordan. Squadrons mission to destroy SCUD launchers in Western Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom.

    Circa 2006


    Photographer: Ken Middleton
    Notes: Bradley Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.

    2007

    Transferred to 190th FS, 124th Wing, Idaho ANG, Boise, ID.

    2007

    Markings Applied: ID, AF 78 707

    30 May 2014


    Photographer: Walter Van Bel
    Notes: Idaho ANG
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