F-106 DELTA DART
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Convair
F-106B
572509
1957
21
340 (277 A, 63 B)
1958-06-01
1958-12-28
2000-04-01
unknown
159th,456th,498th,84th
AFFTC
xx Jun 58 - 21st F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA. To AFFTC, Edwards AFB CA.
xx Apr 61 - Upgraded from TEST-TO-TACTICAL 25 Jul 61 - To 456th FIS Castle AFB CA 15 May 63 - To 498th FIS, 325th FG, McChord AFB WA 09 Jul 63 - To 4756th ADW Tyndall AFB FL 13 Aug 63 - To 498th FIS, 325th FG, McChord AFB WA 14 Jun 66 - To 498th FIS, 57th FG, Paine Field WA 09 Sep 68 - To 498th FIS Hamilton AFB CA 30 Sep 68 - To 84th FIS, 78th FW, Hamilton AFB CA 01 Jan 70 - To 84th FIS, 1st FW, Hamilton AFB CA 29 Aug 73 - To 84th FIS Castle AFB CA 05 Jul 74 - To 159th FIS/125th FIG Jacksonville FL ANG 19 Mar 87 - To B-1B Chase Program, Palmdale CA 24 May 90 - To Davis Monthan AFB AZ for storage FN196 02 Dec 93 - To AEL Inc., Easat Alton IL for drone conversion 20 Jun 94 - To Tyndall AFB FL as QF-106 drone S/N AD268 07 Oct 97 - NWW & 05 door fire on 1st NULLO runup (Flight Terminated) xx Apr 00 - Trucked to El Paso TX - Private Owner Western Air xx Dec 16 - Sold to Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs CA by Western Air El Paso via private sale for renovation and static display painted in B-1B Chase Plane colors with the blue tail flash while at Edwards AFB. A WILD RIDE IN F-106B 57-2509 By Philip S. Viener 1 September 2002 [via email] The 106B in question was not part of a formation - they were on their own after a night training ride - night IFR currency check, I think. The pilot in for the currency check flew it into the lights (and busted the ride), and the check pilot took it around after they contacted the lights. Once he realized they weren't going to fall out of the sky, there was time to get the field ready for them. Emergency crews head out, and another F-106 up at the time tried to verify he had three gear down, but it was too dark. Somehow, the 106B still had three green lights on the landing gear indicator (or so the pilot told me the next morning when he visited the crash site)...so down the wounded aircraft comes. A mutual decision not to foam the runway was made (I heard because it was too damn messy to clean up after!). He did a pretty good job of flying it, too - he got written up in the ADC magazine a few months later for saving the plane. However, even though he held the left wing off as long as he could, the 106 landed at such a high rate of speed, he could only do so much. As soon as the left gear touched, the gear collapsed and the two guys inside were passengers. The plane left the runway and described a long arc that aimed it directly at... not only the large group of parked aircraft Doug described, but it also scattered the emergency crews waiting in front of Base Ops. The Fire Chief told me the next day he thought for sure there would be funerals, as people just scattered and emergency vehicles tried to get out of the way. The 106B had gone between six parked 106s before it took aim at the emergency vehicles. By this time the plane's slowing down some, but it's still kicking up a shower of sparks on the asphalt ramp, and it heads between two hangars (right down the yellow taxi strip somehow) and disappears from sight of the tower. This was the first night in years Hamilton had a designated Supervisor of Flying working in Base Ops, and the SOF that night was Capt. Tom Hedgecock, a good friend of mine who at that time was about 90 days short of getting out of the service. Just about the time the plane disappeared between the hangars, Tom picked up the phone and called me at my off-base residence. He was totally incoherent, but I managed to figure out a plane had crashed and that I'd better go to work. I doubled just about every speed limit on the way in, came screaming up to the guard shack at the base entrance and yelled at the guard "Where's the crash site?" "What crash site?" was his reply. I began to suspect things might not be as bad as Tom had indicated... Meanwhile, the 106B has crossed Hangar Avenue, which ran parallel to the runway but at least 1.5 miles away, and finally come to a stop going the wrong way on a one-way street. These two guys were definitely blessed – they stopped less than 30 feet from a building full of tanks of compressed - and very explosive - gases. The check pilot had presence of mine to shut the engine down just after they left the runway, and there was no fire, but fuel was leaking out of the left wing tank. But they were nowhere near the O Club, and the story they stepped out of the plane and into a quick one is a canard. In fact, they were less than a block from my office. According to the pilot, once the plane stopped, they egressed with all possible speed and ran like hell to get away from the plane, which they thought was going to go up in a ball of flame at any second. And the worst part was they both almost got run over by the fire trucks that had finally caught up with them after losing them in front of Base Ops... And that's the truth. The one possibly apocryphal part of the story I heard was that an airman was driving home from work down the one-way street - the right way - when suddenly this airplane appeared right in front of him. Airman manages to stop short of a collision. Supposedly, this airman had been drinking on the job, but immediately swore off the stuff and never had another drink. Can you imagine trying to explain that one to your insurance agent? "Yes, I was hit by a driver going the wrong way on a one-way street. The other vehicle? An F-106B..." Hope this helps - or at least clarifies some things. And thanks for bringing back some memories. Philip S. Viener 1 Lt, 4661 ABGp Hamilton AFB 1971-1972
24-05-1990
FN196
AD268
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Self as B-1B Chase
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.. Tactical Vertical: Models factory produced w/Tactical Vertical instruments: late 1957 and all 1958, 1959.. F-106 Specifications
31-05-2021
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