Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA3608 F-106 Delta Dart 59-0043, 119th FIS, 1988 "The Last".
In February 1960 the 211th F-106A Delta Dart
59-0043 c/n 8-24-172 was completed and in March
1960 assigned to the 27th FIS Loring AFB, Maine. In July 1971 the aircraft
transferred to the 83rd
FIS at Loring before leaving for Dover AFB, Delaware and the 95th FIS.
On
January 24, 1973 59-0043
began a fifteen and a half year stay with the 119th FIS/177th FIG Atlantic
City, New Jersey ANG and
was named “Spirit of Atlantic City”. In mid-1988 the aircraft went to storage, later converted to a drone but
in 1998 was given a reprieve and sits on “Celebrity Row” at Davis-Monthan
AFB as the last airworthy F-106.
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