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Can anyone please provide the loss dates for the following aircraft ...

78-0607 138th TFS
80-0143 355th FW
80-0157 55th FS or 70th FS

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0143 (355th W, 357th FS) may have been the A-10 involved in heavy landing at Savannah IAP, GA Jun 13, 1995, shattering its nose wheel. SOC Jun 1995, and now relegated to ground instructional airframe


0157 (363rd FW/55th FS) crashed Aug 29, 1995.

did not see a listing for the other airfram

get muddy

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Can anyone please provide the loss dates for the following aircraft ...

80-0157 55th FS or 70th FS

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Hehe 70th at Moody, in fact I was the Crew Chief on that bird when she went down and still have the Valdosta newspaper which covers the crash.

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Thanks for your help guys. So was 80-0157 assigned to Moody or Shaw when it crashed?

What was tail number of the A-10A that was shot down near Baghdad Airport.

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Thanks for your help guys. So was 80-0157 assigned to Moody or Shaw when it crashed?

What was tail number of the A-10A that was shot down near Baghdad Airport.


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157 had just moved from the 55th at Shaw to the 70th at Moody.

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Is this the "corn-cob hanging from the muzzle" jet that SuperSarge told me about?

"Coming to an UNDISCLOSED location near YOU..."

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Is this the "corn-cob hanging from the muzzle" jet that SuperSarge told me about?

"Coming to an UNDISCLOSED location near YOU..."
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Oh my...I didn't know 0157 crashed...one of my "bestest" friends crewed that bird in wonderful Alexandria...LOL...I had a lot of fuel quantity time on it both at Alex and Shaw...I feel like I lost a friend <img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>. We have 0143 tail numbers here (Sheppard) for training...she sure is pretty...Dice helped have her fixed up <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>. And she looks good and serves a purpose.

If it were easy...everyone would do it!

Funny you should say that Jgunn because it ties into what Weasel was asking. You see, as I said before, I was the crew chief on that jet at the time and had worked the passed weekend, all day both days, and 12 hours on Monday night on fuel problems!

I was so mad at that jet Monday night (as I left at 0300) I cursed it using every bad word in my extensive vocabulary! As I walked away I turned around and looked it right in its little bug eyes and told it I was bringing in a ear of corn the next day to hang on the gun muzzle so everyone who saw her would know just how big a pig she was!!

Well, I never saw she again because she crashed the next day as I sleep. Some say she committed suicide because her crew chief didn’t love her anymore!!

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Since we're discussing A-10 losses here, I've a question to contribute.

In 1985 in Sedona, Arizona I was attending High School. I remember one cloudy and rainy day seeing two A-10s come low-level near Sedona under the WX, and depart into Oak Creek Canyon. I distinctly remember because both jets were carryig two Sargent Fletchers. About a minute later, there was a BOOM sound and as it turns out, the lead A-10 smacked the side of Oak Creek Canyon while attempting a cross-turn to exit the canyon. USAF had helos going in for a number of weeks thereafter to investigate and clean up the crash site. In later investigation during my flying days, I found that the flight had departed DM, but the jets were on cross-country and were Myrtle Beach birds. Was around February 1985 and to this day if you ever go to Sedona, go to the downtown Dairy Queen and look up at the cliffs behind the store. If the sunlight is right, you can catch the glint off some of the leftover parts.

Anyone know the tail # of this bird or remember the incident?

My records show 78-0723 of 354th TFW being lost on 09/02/85. But I do not have a crash location for the mishap.

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