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To: Oldexpat

They started cutting them up in 2007 and the last one was destroyed either late ‘09 or early ‘10. I remember reading the article about the last one being cut up because the guy who was cutting it up worked on them in the Navy and he was choked up about it.

Only survivors are completely gutted and mounted on sticks in front of bases or in museums.

I found an old FR post from 2007 saying it was a 3 year contract to get rid of all of them

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860474/posts


66 posted on 03/01/2011 6:59:31 AM PST by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: hattend
They started cutting them up in 2007 and the last one was destroyed either late ‘09 or early ‘10.

There's still about a dozen or so left out at AMARG. Pictures of them show up every so often out on Airliners.net and Airfighters.com. While mothballed (spraylatted and not de-mil'd), they're just being held as a contingency to meet future museum requests. Although Dale Snodgrass (the high-time Tomcat driver and the pilot for that amazing carrier fly-by picture that's all over the net) did at one time have a scheme to buy up 8-10 of them to keep 4 flying on the airsho circuit. :D
107 posted on 03/01/2011 2:32:34 PM PST by tanknetter
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