Lineage History F-106A 580767

Manufacturer:

Convair

Model:

F-106A

USAF S/N:

580767

Production Year:

1958

Production C/N No.:

125

No. Built

340 (277 A, 63 B)

Production Date:

1959-09-01

Delivery Date:

1959-12-28

Ended Service:

1994-08-26

Airframe Hours:

unknown

Units Assigned:

171st,2nd,318th,456th,71st,84th,94th

Units Assigned - ADC:

ADWC

History Lineage:

Sep 1959 - 125th F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA
28 Sep 59 - To 456th FIS Castle AFB CA
17 Oct 60 - To 71st FIS, 1st FG, Selfridge AFB MI
Oct 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis landing accident @ Terra Haute IN
15 Jan 67 - To 71st FIS, 328th FG, Richards Gebaur AFB MO
28 Jun 68 - To 71st FIS Malmstrom AFB MT
12 Nov 68 - To 71st FIS Outside ZI (Korea)
28 Apr 69 - To 94th FIS Outside ZI (Korea)
20 Nov 69 - To 94th FIS, 1st FW, Selfridge AFB MI
01 Dec 69 - To 94th FIS Wurtsmith AFB MI
01 Jul 71 - To 2nd FIS Wurtsmith AFB MI
29 Dec 72 - To 171st FIS/ 191st FIG Selfridge AFB MI ANG
30 Apr 78 - To 84th FIS Castle AFB CA (ADCOM)
01 Oct 79 - Command change from ADCOM to TAC
?? May 81 - To 318th FIS McChord AFB WA
?? ??? ?? - To ADWC Tyndall AFB FL
06 Apr 84 - To Davis Monthan AFB AZ for storage FN054
13 Jan 93 - To AEL Inc., East Alton IL for drone conversion
06 Apr 93 - To Tyndall AFB FL as QF-106A drone S/N AD229
26 Aug 94 - Out of control during recovery on 2nd NULLO. Crashed

During the Cuba crisis 767 was scramble of alert along withthe rest of the alert birds and they landed in Indiana with full load of weapons. Jim Caloway confirms it was Terra Haute IN as he and Lt Beroth opened the bay doors once they got nose off the ground. 767 ran off the end of runway and bent the nose up. The sheet metal troops at Selfridge cut the nose off of one in the boneyard and was flown to IN and installed on 767. Capt Hal Needham flew it back to Selfridge where all wiring for radar and computer was hooked up. It then was to depot to check it out and they said the fix was good. Lavern Bruhn

AMARC Arrival:

06-04-1984

AMARC Storage PCN ID No.:

FN054

QF Drone Conversion:

QF Drone ID No.:

AD229

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:

No Pilot - Drone Crash

Pilot Rear:

Accident Report No:

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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