Serial | 002018 | |||||||||||||||
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Model | CF-116D | |||||||||||||||
Status | Stored | |||||||||||||||
Comments | Originally ordered as RCAF 14818, re-marked before completion. Initial delivery to CFB Bagotville, PQ for use by 433e L'Escadre de Combat. Later to No. 434 Squadron. With No. 419 Squadron at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta in 1979, 1982 and 1983. Back with 434 Squadron in 1988. Received full Avionic Update Program modifications in early 1990s. Still with No. 419 Squadron, CFB Cold Lake, in early 1995, one of the last operational CF-5s. Stored at CFB Trenton by June 1995. Seen in storage, outdoors at CFD Mountain View, Ontario in October 2005. Still stored outside, wrapped in plastic, in September 2007. Still outside, wrapped in foil, by August 2008. Still stored outside at Mountain View in November 2008. Reported as sold to Aero Vision in USA, but still at Mountain View in June 2010 and October 2010. Left Mountain View on 28 July 2011. Seen in storage at Red Eagle Avionics, Wilmington, Delaware in October 2011. (Source: http://www.rwrwalker.ca/caf_116801_846_detailed_list.htm) | |||||||||||||||
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