Lineage History F-106A 572458

Manufacturer:

Convair

Model:

F-106A

USAF S/N:

572458

Production Year:

1957

Production C/N No.:

No. Built

340 (277 A, 63 B)

Production Date:

1959-03-01

Delivery Date:

1959-03-28

Ended Service:

1979-09-03

Airframe Hours:

unknown

Units Assigned:

186th,437th,456th,460th,539th

Units Assigned - ADC:

ADWC

History Lineage:

Mar 1959 - 54th F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA
04 May 59 - To 539th FIS McGuire AFB NJ
16 Apr 63 - To Spokane WA (For Aero Jet Cal Inst.)
29 Apr 63 - To 456th FIS Castle AFB CA
01 Jul 68 - To 437th FIS, 414 th FG, Oxnard AFB CA
30 Sep 68 - To 460th FIS, 414th FG, Oxnard AFB CA
24 Nov 69 - To 460th FIS, 408th FG, Kingsley Field OR
30 Apr 71 - To 460th FIS Grand Forks AFB ND
13 Mar 72 - To ADWC Tyndall AFB FL
22 May 72 - To 186th FIS/120th FIG Great Falls IAP MT ANG
29 May 74 - Landing accident (Collided on runway with 57-2482)
?? ??? ?? - Returned to flying status after repair by a depot team at 186th ?
03 Sep 79 - Crashed after hitting a grain elevator during the Labor Day Parade 1979 in Dillon MT. A pair of Sixes were doing a fly-over for a local parade, the pair started the run too low and didn't realize they were too close, and too low to avoid hitting the grain silo at the end of main street. impact was at 100' AGL. F-106A 57-2458 of the 186 FIS, 120th FIG Montana ANG, Capt. Joel Orren Rude was killed after ejecting from the aircraft. but was outside the parameters of the ejection seat, and was killed, as his chute had no time to deploy.

AMARC Storage PCN ID No.:

QF Drone Conversion:

QF Drone ID No.:

QF Drone Shotdown:

Shotdown By:

QF Drone Lost on Nullo No.:

Deployed to Osan AB Korea:

B-1B Chase Plane:

Crash

Crew Ejected:

Crew Survived:

Crew Killed:

Pilot Front / Pilot Rear:

Capt. Joel Orren Rude

Pilot Rear:

Accident Report No:

790903001

Destroyed:

Written-Off:

Survivor:

Static Display Painted As:

Instruments - TAC Conventional:

TAC Conventional: Models produced with Tactical 'Round Eye' instruments.

Instruments - Conventional:

Conventional: Models were originally committed as TEST or BAILMENT aircraft..

Instruments - TEST-to-TACTICAL:

TEST-to-TACTICAL: Models returned to Convair and upgraded from TAC Conventional to Vertical
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..

Instruments - Vertical, 1st Produced:

Vertical, 1st Produced: First 'A' and 'B' models produced with vertical instruments.
Tactical Vertical: Models factory produced w/Tactical Vertical instruments: late 1957 and all 1958, 1959..

F-106 Specifications

Role/Function	Fighter-Interceptor
Manufacturer	Convair Division of General Dynamics
Country	United States
Crew	'A' Model 1, 'B' Model 2
Power plant	Pratt & Whitney J-75-P-17 Turbojet
Thrust	24,500 lbs. in Afterburner
Max Speed	1,525 mph (Mach 2.31) @ 40,000 ft
Service Ceiling	53,000 ft
Wing Span	38 ft. 3½ in.
Length	70 ft 8.78in
Height	20 ft 3.3in
Weight	23,646 lb. empty, 41,831 lb max
Cost USD	$3,305,435 Initial, $4.7M after MODS
Range	2,700 mi. max fuel w/ext tanks
No. Built	340 (277 'A', 63 'B')
Armament	AIR-2A (1) AIM-4 (4) M61A1 (1)
Fire Control System	Hughes MA-1 / IBM Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) System
Ejection Seats
1st Seat	Weber Aircraft Corporation Interim seat, not Zero-Zero, inadequate for supersonic speed ejections.
2nd Seat	Convair/ICESC (Industry Crew Escape System Committee) Supersonic Rotational B-seat, called the supersonic 'Bobsled'.
3rd Seat Final	Weber Aircraft Corporation Zero-Zero ROCAT (Rocket Catapult), Zero-Zero, High-altitude supersonic ejections, retro-fitted to all aircraft.
Mfr. Model #	MK No. 8-24

Instruments - Tactical Vertical:

Last Update:

31-05-2021

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