Lineage History F-106B 572517

Manufacturer:

Convair

Model:

F-106B

USAF S/N:

572517

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Production Year:

1957

Production C/N No.:

No. Built

340 (277 A, 63 B)

Production Date:

1958-12-01

Delivery Date:

1958-12-28

Ended Service:

2000-04-01

Airframe Hours:

unknown

Units Assigned:

101st,186th,498th,95th

Units Assigned - ADC:

73AD,ADWC

History Lineage:

Dec 1958 - 41st F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA
03 June 59 - To 498th FIS Geiger Field WA
12 May 60 - To 73rd Air Division Tyndall AFB FL
22 May 62 - To 95th FIS Andrews AFB MD
01 July 63 - To 95th FIS Dover AFB DE
30 Oct 69 - To ADWC Tyndall AFB FL
10 Apr 70 - To 95th FIS Dover AFB DE
10 Aug 70 - To ADWC Tyndall AFB FL
02 Nov 72 - To 186th FIS/120th FIG Great Falls MT ANG
26 Jun 87 - To 101st FIS/102nd FIG Otis AFB Massachusetts ANG
26 Jan 88 - To Davis Monthan AFB AZ for storage FN177
19 Oct 92 - To AEL Inc., East Alton IL for drone conversion
10 Dec 93 - To Holloman AFB AZ as QF-106 drone S/N AD256 Zero NULLOs
21 Feb 97 - Crashed on landing at Tyndall AFB FL, locked brake (Written off)
Apr 2000 - Trucked to El Paso - Private Owner
20 Jan 03 - Stripped and sold for scrap

57-2517 CRASH DAMAGE STORY
From the Pilot Himself, Col Robert "Buzz Sawyer, 3 July 1999

On 21 March 97, Jim Fairhurst (one of my LM pilots) ferried AD256 (57-2517) to Tyndall, as we were sending all our 106s East, making room for our QF-4s. When he landed, his right brake was locked, and with just about 100 hours total QF-106 time, he couldn't keep it on the runway. She hit the barrier housing and broke off the right gear, and spun around, almost flipping over on her back. The other two gear collapsed, the nose was broken off (which threw the battery out of the jet), and he had to be cut out of the cockpit. The aftermath is attached.

After being grounded and scrutinized by an accident board, our MC-11 maintenance was suspect, and we went through a big thrash replacing the air "dryers". Well on 14 March 97, I flew AD199 to Tyndall, and my left brake was locked when I landed! It felt like I rolled over a BAK-12 cable as I touched down (my tire blowing) and the jet started drifting left. Tower says I have smoke coming from my left wheel, I appear to have blown a tire.

My hands are full as I'm about to go off into the grass on the left side of the runway, as the tower now says my left wheel has caught fire. Great! Well, with full forward and right stick, nosewheel steering hard right, and a little right brake, I got the plane parallel to the runway, and starting to correct back to the right a little. I still thought I just had a blown tire, and was planning to turn off, when the jet just stopped. I couldn't taxi any further, so I opened the canopy and looked out (getting ready to jump over the side if I was on fire) and saw my wheel was ground off almost to the hub.

Well, I left it on the runway and got a ride back into ops with the WEG commander. Having seen what happened to 256 three weeks earlier, he says, "nice job keeping it on the runway." Thanks. That was it. My boss didn't even put me in for a $$ award!

So, the next day I left her on the ramp, impounded. At least they had the plane to intact to investigate, unlike AD256. That was the last I saw her. I don't know whether it was shot down, or was one of the lucky ones that went back to AMARC. I suspect she sleeps with the fishes, as it was a good flying drone. Buzz

AMARC Arrival:

26-06-1988

AMARC Storage PCN ID No.:

FN177

QF Drone Conversion:

QF Drone ID No.:

AD256

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:

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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