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F-106A 57-2485 being pushed off the barge on 25 Sep 1995.tail-first to become an artificial reef off Panama City to become an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico, The reef site is Bay County's Large Area Site A. There are three F-106 planes at this site in 112 feet of water off Panama City. This is from a video capture by Dick Lewis from an undated video provided by Steve Shipton showing three expired QF-106s being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in about 100 feet of water to form a fishing reef. Tail numbers are 57-2485, 59-0058, and 59-0129. [Dick Lewis Collection submitted by Steve Shipton 15 Jan 2001]