Lineage History F-106A 572453

Manufacturer:

Convair

Model:

F-106A

USAF S/N:

572453

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Production Year:

1957

Production C/N No.:

No. Built

340 (277 A, 63 B)

Production Date:

1959-02-01

Delivery Date:

1959-02-28

Ended Service:

1996-12-12

Airframe Hours:

unknown

Units Assigned:

186th,437th,456th,460th,498th,539th

Units Assigned - Test/Eval:

SM-ALC

History Lineage:

xx Feb 59 - 47th F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA
29 May 59 - To 498th FIS Geiger Field WA
02 Dec 59 - To SAMA (McClellan AFB CA)

xx Dec 60 - Minor incident occurred in in Dec 1960 with 498th FIS, Geiger Field, WA. They were testing fuel shifting at McClellan AFB CA and got too much weight aft. A GD/Convair field team was installing qualified cold-weather fuel valves. This happened during the refueling check-out phase when someone forgot to manually turn off a valve in the main wheel well on this early configured aircraft. The result was that the fuel wasn't distributed properly and it caused a center of gravity situation where there was more weight behind the main landing gear than there was weight forward of the main landing gear. Courtesy of Joe Sylvia

19 Jul 61 - To 498th FIS, 84th FG, Spokane IAP WA
06 May 63 - To 456th FIS Castle AFB CA
09 Oct 64 - To 539th FIS McGuire AFB NJ
12 Jun 67 - To 456th FIS Castle AFB CA
01 Jul 68 - To 437th FIS, 414th FG, Oxnard AFB CA
30 Sep 68 - To 460th FIS, 414th FG, Oxnard AFB CA
24 Nov 69 - To 460th FIS, 408th FG, Kingsley Field OR
30 Apr 71 - To 460th FIS Grand Forks AFB ND
05 Apr 72 - To 186th FIS/120th FIG Great Falls IAP MT (ANG)
20 Apr 87 - To Davis Monthan AFB AZ for storage FN135
18 May 92,- To AEL Inc., East Alton IL for drone conversion
11 Aug 92 - To Holloman AFB NM as QF-106 drone S/N AD198
17 Dec 96 - Shot down on 1st NULLO by a Patriot

AMARC Arrival:

20-04-1987

AMARC Storage PCN ID No.:

FN135

QF Drone Conversion:

QF Drone ID No.:

AD198

QF Drone Shotdown:

Shotdown By:

Patriot Missile

QF Drone Lost on Nullo No.:

Deployed to Osan AB Korea:

B-1B Chase Plane:

Crash

Crew Ejected:

Crew Survived:

Crew Killed:

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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