Lineage History F-106B 572537

Manufacturer:

Convair

Model:

F-106B

USAF S/N:

572537

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Production Year:

1957

Production C/N No.:

150

No. Built

340 (277 A, 63 B)

Production Date:

1959-10-01

Delivery Date:

1959-12-28

Ended Service:

1998-01-28

Airframe Hours:

unknown

Units Assigned:

27th

Units Assigned - ADC:

73AD,ADWC

Units Assigned - Test/Eval:

4750

History Lineage:

Oct 1959 - 150th F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA
09 Feb 60 - To 4756th ADW Tyndall AFB FL
25 Jun 60 - To 73rd AD Tyndall AFB FL
17 Jan 61 - To 4756th M & S Gp Tyndall AFB FL
27 Jul 61 - To 4756th ADG Tyndall AFB FL
13 Sep 61 - Major Damage (see below. Bleed air duct/MA-1 failure/heat damage)
05 Oct 61 - To AFLC MOAMA (Depot Field Team or to Mobile AL F-102 Depot?)
01 May 63 - To 4756th ADW Tyndall AFB FL
02 Nov 67 - To ADWC Tyndall AFB FL
01 Feb 69 - To 27th FIS Loring AFB ME (Loan)
03 Mar 69 - To ADWC Tyndall AFB FL
01 Oct 79 - Command change from ADCOM to TAC
06 Apr 84 - To Davis Monthan AB AZ for storage FN053
03 Feb 94 - To AEL Inc., East Alton IL for drone conversion
25 Oct 94 - To Holloman then Tyndall as QF-106 drone S/N AD276
28 Jan 98 - Shot down on 1st NULLO by an AIM-120

Major Damage cause by JP4 fuel in the intake while engine was running. The crew chief had just finished checking the bleed air ducts on the back bone for leaks after P.E. Insp. Had just slid off the wing and was walking to tell the crew chief running the engine he had finished and he could shutdown. All of a sudden all hell broke loose, The whole front of the aircraft was a ball of flames. The run-up screen blew off knocking the ladder off and they landed about 20 odd feet from the aircraft. The aft cockpit was melted, crew chief left side of head burned a little bit. (when he got back to the hanger he had to change his shorts, had all kinds of skid marks in them). Lot of damage to the black boxes on the top of the aircraft.

The cause was some one during P.E insp pulled the panel off the F tank and did not write it up in the 781A. The crew chief hit the fuel transfer switch and transferred fuel into the F tank and when it was full it overflowed into the intakes and rear cockpit causing the engine to ignite the fuel.

AMARC Arrival:

06-04-1984

AMARC Storage PCN ID No.:

FN053

QF Drone Conversion:

QF Drone ID No.:

AD276

QF Drone Shotdown:

Shotdown By:

QF Drone Lost on Nullo No.:

Deployed to Osan AB Korea:

B-1B Chase Plane:

Crash

Crew Ejected:

Pilot Front / Pilot Rear:

Pilot Rear:

Accident Report No:

Destroyed:

Written-Off:

Survivor:

Static Display Painted As:

Instruments - TAC Conventional:

TAC Conventional: Models produced with Tactical 'Round Eye' instruments.

Instruments - Conventional:

Conventional: Models were originally committed as TEST or BAILMENT aircraft..

Instruments - TEST-to-TACTICAL:

TEST-to-TACTICAL: Models returned to Convair and upgraded from TAC Conventional to Vertical
instruments in 1961. Fuselage cut in half at station 412 (Aft bulkhead missile bay) and a new fuselage, cockpit section,
and nose section was installed with the latest production avionics, the same as the last F-106A 590148 and F-106B 590165.
A total of 35 aircraft (28 "A" models and 7 "B" models) were converted and reassigned to various ADC units..

Instruments - Vertical, 1st Produced:

Vertical, 1st Produced: First 'A' and 'B' models produced with vertical instruments.
Tactical Vertical: Models factory produced w/Tactical Vertical instruments: late 1957 and all 1958, 1959..

F-106 Specifications

Role/Function	Fighter-Interceptor
Manufacturer	Convair Division of General Dynamics
Country	United States
Crew	'A' Model 1, 'B' Model 2
Power plant	Pratt & Whitney J-75-P-17 Turbojet
Thrust	24,500 lbs. in Afterburner
Max Speed	1,525 mph (Mach 2.31) @ 40,000 ft
Service Ceiling	53,000 ft
Wing Span	38 ft. 3½ in.
Length	70 ft 8.78in
Height	20 ft 3.3in
Weight	23,646 lb. empty, 41,831 lb max
Cost USD	$3,305,435 Initial, $4.7M after MODS
Range	2,700 mi. max fuel w/ext tanks
No. Built	340 (277 'A', 63 'B')
Armament	AIR-2A (1) AIM-4 (4) M61A1 (1)
Fire Control System	Hughes MA-1 / IBM Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) System
Ejection Seats
1st Seat	Weber Aircraft Corporation Interim seat, not Zero-Zero, inadequate for supersonic speed ejections.
2nd Seat	Convair/ICESC (Industry Crew Escape System Committee) Supersonic Rotational B-seat, called the supersonic 'Bobsled'.
3rd Seat Final	Weber Aircraft Corporation Zero-Zero ROCAT (Rocket Catapult), Zero-Zero, High-altitude supersonic ejections, retro-fitted to all aircraft.
Mfr. Model #	MK No. 8-24

Instruments - Tactical Vertical:

Last Update:

31-05-2021

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