Convair
F-106B
572519
1957
53
340 (277 A, 63 B)
1959-02-01
1959-02-28
1966-04-21
unknown
498th
6511,AFFTC,AFSC,SA-AMC
Feb 1959 - 53rd F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA
21 Jul 59 - To 498th FIS, 84th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron, Air Defense Command, Geiger Field WA 30 Nov 59 - To 498th FIS, 84th FG, Geiger Field WA 07 Jun 60 - To Sacramento Air Logistics Area, McClellan AFB CA 22 Apr 62 - To 498th FIS, 84th FG, Spokane Municipal Airport WA 31 Aug 62 - To Sacramento Air Logistics Area, McClellan AFB CA 02 Nov 62 - To 6515th Organizational Maintenance Squadron Air Force Systems Command, Edwards AFB CA 29 Dec 64 - To AF Flight Test Center (AFSC), Edwards AFB CA 28 Apr 66 - To NF-106B 21 Jun 66 - To Martin Company, Baltimore MD 16 Mar 68 - To AF Flight Test Center (AFSC). Edwards AFB CA 21 Oct 71 - To 552nd Airborne Early Warning Wing, McClellan AFB CA (ADC) 13 Feb 72 - To Sacramento Air Logistics Area, McClellan AFB CA 14 Sep 76 - Dropped from inventory as surplus While at the Martin Company in Baltimore, both F-106B 57-2519 and F-106B 57-2529 supported a flight simulation program designed to replicate flight characteristics (for the back seat pilot) of different kinds of aircraft, like the Martin X-23, X-24A & X-24B lifting bodies and space re-entry vehicles. Click here for a Mar 04 confirmation e-mail from two retired Convair Reps, Jim Day & Joe Sylvia. Click here for a 09 Jan 07 e-mail and here for a 11 Jan 07 e-mail from test pilot Don Ward. Both 57-2519 & 57-2529 were put in storage as NF-106Bs at McClellan AFB CA in the early 70s. In the mid 70s, it was decided to use the two NFs to repair crash damaged aircraft, so the NFs were declared surplus.
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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
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