Lineage History F-106A 560467

Manufacturer:

Convair

Model:

F-106A

USAF S/N:

560467

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Production Year:

1956

Production C/N No.:

No. Built

340 (277 A, 63 B)

Production Date:

1958-04-01

Delivery Date:

1961-06-05

Ended Service:

1961-08-14

Airframe Hours:

unknown

Units Assigned:

329th

Units Assigned - Test/Eval:

AFFTC,Convair

History Lineage:

Apr 1958 - 18th F-106 produced by Convair at San Diego CA To AFFTC as a test bird
5 Dec 59 - Major Joe Rogers set world's speed record of 1525 mph
May 1961 - Upgraded from TEST to TACTICAL (At Convair, # 27 0f 35)
05 Jun 61 - To 329th FIS George AFB CA
14 Aug 61 - Destroyed by fire on landing at Edwards due to blown tire on takeoff and sparks/fire in wheel well upon landing. No ejection. Pilot landed aircraft. Pilot James W. Wilkinson Jr unharmed.

By Pilot James W. Wilkinson Jr, Sep 2024

Note the speed brakes remained closed. I never heard what the specific speed brake malfunction was but it resulted in both normal deployment as well as the emergency system failure. Had the emergency system remained functional, I believe 467 might have been saved. After the aircraft had slowed and I lost all control, the aircraft slowly veered off the left side of the runway. Note in the first image that my helmet is hanging down the right side of the cockpit. I decided to go over the right side of the cockpit because I had heard a story at George AFB about a F-104 which had, for some reason, landed short of the runway in a cross wind, broke-up and caught fire. The pilot survived the crash but chose to exit the cockpit on the downwind side - the bird exploded and the fire ball caught and killed him. I remembered that story as 467 became totally uncontrollable and slowly veered to the left off the runway. I departed the cockpit over the right side because it was the the up wind side - wind was essentially down the runway. I am now 87 years old [Sep 2024} and I remember that day at Edwards as if it was yesterday.

Regards,
James W. Wilkinson Jr
fka Jim Mueller

AMARC Storage PCN ID No.:

QF Drone Conversion:

QF Drone ID No.:

QF Drone Shotdown:

Shotdown By:

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:

James W. Wilkinson Jr

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:

05-10-2024

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