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F-106A 59-0069 painted as 57-2492 in May 2017.
A 'vertically instrumented' bird, seen here repainted as ' round-eye' 186th FIS jet 57-2492, on static display at Great Falls, Montana. After leaving the Griffiss AFB display location where it retained it's authentic 59-0069 tail number, It had been first repainted as another 186th FIS jet 57-2463, then sometime after 2004 it was repainted as the current 57-2492. Photo taken May 2017 by Keith Becker