Yes a handsome aircraft. Always easy to identify with that huge high tail. And loud as hell!
Yes. Occasionally they would show up in Yuma and you could tell they were there by the racket. We called them flying fins.
Just an anecdote - I know nothing about military or civilian aircraft - but as a passenger on a flight I must have seemed nervous, because the young man next to me asked: “What is your favorite plane?” I have no idea why I responded “The F16”. He then reached in his pocket and handed me an F16 lapel pin!!!!!! He was an F16 pilot!!!!!!
I still have the pin in my jewelry box.