Convair
F-106A
580767
1958
125
340 (277 A, 63 B)
1959-09-01
1959-12-28
1994-08-26
unknown
171st,2nd,318th,456th,71st,84th,94th
ADWC
Sep 1959 - 125th F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA
28 Sep 59 - To 456th FIS Castle AFB CA 17 Oct 60 - To 71st FIS, 1st FG, Selfridge AFB MI Oct 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis landing accident @ Terra Haute IN 15 Jan 67 - To 71st FIS, 328th FG, Richards Gebaur AFB MO 28 Jun 68 - To 71st FIS Malmstrom AFB MT 12 Nov 68 - To 71st FIS Outside ZI (Korea) 28 Apr 69 - To 94th FIS Outside ZI (Korea) 20 Nov 69 - To 94th FIS, 1st FW, Selfridge AFB MI 01 Dec 69 - To 94th FIS Wurtsmith AFB MI 01 Jul 71 - To 2nd FIS Wurtsmith AFB MI 29 Dec 72 - To 171st FIS/ 191st FIG Selfridge AFB MI ANG 30 Apr 78 - To 84th FIS Castle AFB CA (ADCOM) 01 Oct 79 - Command change from ADCOM to TAC ?? May 81 - To 318th FIS McChord AFB WA ?? ??? ?? - To ADWC Tyndall AFB FL 06 Apr 84 - To Davis Monthan AFB AZ for storage FN054 13 Jan 93 - To AEL Inc., East Alton IL for drone conversion 06 Apr 93 - To Tyndall AFB FL as QF-106A drone S/N AD229 26 Aug 94 - Out of control during recovery on 2nd NULLO. Crashed During the Cuba crisis 767 was scramble of alert along withthe rest of the alert birds and they landed in Indiana with full load of weapons. Jim Caloway confirms it was Terra Haute IN as he and Lt Beroth opened the bay doors once they got nose off the ground. 767 ran off the end of runway and bent the nose up. The sheet metal troops at Selfridge cut the nose off of one in the boneyard and was flown to IN and installed on 767. Capt Hal Needham flew it back to Selfridge where all wiring for radar and computer was hooked up. It then was to depot to check it out and they said the fix was good. Lavern Bruhn
06-04-1984
FN054
AD229
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2
No Pilot - Drone Crash
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instruments in 1961. Fuselage cut in half at station 412 (Aft bulkhead missile bay) and a new fuselage, cockpit section, and nose section was installed with the latest production avionics, the same as the last F-106A 590148 and F-106B 590165. A total of 35 aircraft (28 "A" models and 7 "B" models) were converted and reassigned to various ADC units.. Tactical Vertical: Models factory produced w/Tactical Vertical instruments: late 1957 and all 1958, 1959.. F-106 Specifications
31-05-2021
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