Aircraft assigned to the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) at Edwards AFB, CA, Air Force Systems Command at Holloman AFB, NM, and other test programs. Also, there was the 6520th Test Group, Electronic Research Division-ARDC (ESD) Hanscom Field. MA.
F-106A 56-0451, the first 106 built, and it's sister 56-0452, the 2nd Six built, were initially Convair company birds. If you look close at these birds they don't have a Tail Hook, which was added many years later. As the F-106 was initially designated as the F-102B notice fuselage Buzz Numbers using 'FC" such as 'FC-451'. The first three F-106's (56-0453 being the third) all had 'FC' buzz numbers, 'FC' being the F-102 designator, while 'FE' later became the F-106 specific designator. The aircraft you see here with FC on the side indicates it was in fact an F-102B at the time of the photo, very early in flight testing and not yet production, also indicated by the orange test and eval paint color schemes.
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560451 First Flight - FC Buzz Number
- 1612 visits
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560451 First Flight 1956
- 2127 visits
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560451 First Flight Landing
- 1517 visits
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560451 Flight Test
- 2319 visits
, Rating: 2.63
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560451 Landing
- 3167 visits
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560451 Sheaffer Tail Hook Tests
- 2273 visits
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560451 YF-106A 1957
- 2652 visits
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560452 FC Buzz Number
- 1791 visits
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560452 FC Buzz Number
- 1717 visits
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560452 Wing Fences FC Buzz Number
- 2022 visits
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560452 Wing Fences FC Buzz Number
- 2339 visits
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560452 Wing Fences FC Buzz Number
- 1695 visits
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560453 1958 FC Buzz Number
- 1959 visits
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560453 F-102B FC Buzz Code
- 2651 visits
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560453 F-102B FC Buzz Code
- 3216 visits
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560453 F-102B FC Buzz Code
- 2685 visits
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560453 F-102B FC Buzz Code
- 3728 visits
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560453 F-102B FC Buzz Code and F-102A
- 1915 visits
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560453 F-102B FC Buzz Code and F-102A
- 2496 visits
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560454 1965/03
- 1341 visits
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560454 1965/03
- 1319 visits
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560454 Convair
- 2567 visits
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560454 IFR
- 3315 visits
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560454 JF-106A Convair Testing
- 2278 visits
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560454 JF-106A Convair Testing
- 2239 visits
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560455
- 1557 visits
, Rating: 4.30
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560455 AFSC WPAFB
- 1648 visits
, Rating: 4.30
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560455 Wing Fences
- 2046 visits
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560456
- 1170 visits
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560459 Joe Rogers Speed Record Walk Around
- 3664 visits
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560459 Red Baron
- 4591 visits
, Rating: 4.27
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560460
- 1517 visits
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560461
- 2012 visits
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560461
- 2502 visits
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560462
- 2510 visits
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560462
- 2846 visits
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560462
- 2124 visits
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560462 J-57-P-9
- 1795 visits
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560462 Wing Fences
- 2366 visits
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560464 Holloman AFB NM Flight Test
- 1276 visits
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560464 Holloman AFB NM Flight Test
- 1201 visits
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560464 Holloman AFB NM Flight Test
- 1150 visits
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560464 Holloman AFB NM Flight Test
- 1201 visits
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560467
- 1243 visits
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560467
- 1175 visits
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560467
- 1951 visits
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560467
- 1547 visits
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560467
- 2018 visits
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560467 1960
- 2091 visits
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560467 Open House 1961
- 1616 visits
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560467 Speed Record
- 2767 visits
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560467 Speed Record Debrief
- 2963 visits
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560467 Speed Record Maj Rogers
- 3067 visits
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560467 Speed Run
- 2007 visits
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570230 AFFTC
- 1188 visits
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570238
- 1820 visits
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570238
- 1908 visits
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570242 1958 Crash Site
- 2885 visits
, Rating: 3.03
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572490 6520th Test Group
- 2064 visits
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572504
- 2161 visits
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572504
- 1135 visits
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572504 Press Photo
- 2397 visits
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572507 1958 First Flight
- 1750 visits
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572507 1958 First Flight
- 1625 visits
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572507 1959 AFFTC
- 926 visits
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572507 1959 AFFTC
- 825 visits
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572507 1959 AFFTC
- 1959 visits
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572507 1959 AFFTC
- 1463 visits
, Rating: 4.30
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572507 1959 AFFTC
- 1552 visits
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572507 1965 Ejection Seat Testing
- 956 visits
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572507 Wing Fences
- 1823 visits
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572514
- 1393 visits
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572514
- 1531 visits
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572519 1965
- 1185 visits
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572529 (01)
- 304 visits
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572529 (02)
- 297 visits
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572529 Edwards
- 1231 visits
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- 1006 visits
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59 0061 02large
- 975 visits
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59 0061 03large
- 973 visits