Photo Oct 2003 by Hans van Herk: A sculpture by artist Nancy Rubins taken at an art exhibition in October of 2003 at Fort Belvedere in Firenze Italy by Hans van Herk of the Netherlands and was provided to me by Andy Marden of Lincoln Great Britain. The exhibit ended 26 Oct 03 and its location is unknown to me at this time and the details of how the tail section of a F-106 that crashed on 22 April 69 in California USA appeared in a sculpture 34 years later in Italy is a mystery to us....Erv Smalley 16 Nov 2003.

Pat Perry 8-30-2013: I painted the tail on this aircraft before I was transferred to Okinawa in 1968. This just proves that you better do good work because you never know where it will turn up. I never would have expected to see it 45 years later in Firenze Italy.

Nancy Rubins (born 1952 in Naples, Texas) is an American sculptor and Installation artist. Her sculptural works are primarily composed of blooming arrangements of large rigid objects such as televisions, small appliances, camping and construction trailers, hot water heaters, mattresses, airplane parts, rowboats, kayaks, canoes, surfboards, and other objects. Works such as Big Edge at City Center in Las Vegas contain over 200 boat vessels. Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Monochrome I, Built to Live Anywhere, at Home Here, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, contains 66 used aluminum boats and rises to a height of 30 ft.