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Lineage History F-106A 560464

Convair
F-106A
560464
1956
15
340 (277 A, 63 B)
1958-04-01
1961-04-04
1964-08-04
unknown
27th,318th
4750
April 58 - 15th F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA (To Holloman AFB NM as a test bird)
March 61 - # 13 of 35 TEST to TACTICAL Conversions
04 Apr 61 - To 27th FIS Loring AFB ME
04 Aug 61 - To 318th FIS, 325th FW, McChord AFB WA
05 Aug 64 - Crashed (Engine flameout - unsuccessful restarts) into the wilderness near Lake Ozette. Pilot Captain Webb H. Huss ejected and survived.

Port Angeles Evening News, Thursday August 6, 1964
Pilot bails out of jet at Ozette:
The pilot of a F-106 jet fighter [318th FIS] ejected safely, before it crashed into the wilderness near Lake Ozette, shortly before noon Wednesday. Air Force Captain Webb H. Huss, parachuted into the lake and was pulled from the water by an unidentified boater and taken to shore. A helicopter from Paine Air Force Base flew him to Sedro Woolley, where he was hospitalized with head and other injuries.
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Capt. Webb H. Huss
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TAC Conventional: Models produced with Tactical 'Round Eye' instruments.


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


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..


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
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