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We (122FW, IN ANG) received our first A-10A today from DM that will be used for maintenance and load training. 80-0168 landed code 1 after a 9 hour flight and I helped recover and tow it since I had the APG training at Moody a couple weeks ago. Can't wait for the whole conversion!

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SoWW #2485
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Awesome....treat her well and enjoy her!!!

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The A-10 stay as A model and it is not going to be a C model?
Just for load training. Just as the Green A-10 at Spangdahlem. It never flies again, but used for training on the ground and still a beauty.

Have a nice and good time with the plane.

See her in her flying days.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Ai ... 1b8921c099

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Cool pic Dutchy...another demo bird! She doesn't look that clean now, but not too bad. It's a maintenance and load training bird, and I doubt she'll fly again. Kind of like Moody's trainer (from Pope) that hasn't flown since '92 I think. The 781J shows she has over 10,000 hours.

I've heard the AF wants to eventually convert it to a C, but I can't really see the point other than the cockpit layout. Not much changed to the rest of the plane with the mods.

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Ahh 168. I remember that one well. My buddy \"Gut\" was the DCC on it for a while. I think it was a good jet most of the time. Give her a slap on her ass for me.

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Former DCC OA-10A T/N 80-278

Those Bentwaters jets racked up shed loads of hours, 168 was with the 'Skulls' once.

Weasel, you are mistake on this one. There are new connection for all the new weapons and targeting pods the C can carry. Things have been moved around, deleted, and added in all the pylons. Training a weapons crew on an A-10A to load an A-10C model would be like training a load crew on an F-4G to load a F-4E. Not to mention the switchlogy and system checks needed on an A-10C, not needed on a A-10A, that if you don't upgrade the aircraft for this training you might as well us the aircraft as a ABDR bird.

My dad was a Skull from 84-87 at Bentwaters.....odds are he probably did some form of maintenance on 168 at some time

Copy that Dice Man, I never thought of that. My mistake...only because I'm not a load toad. Toads are a completely different animal than me so I was only thinking of the APG side of the house. Good point!

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