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New Gate Guardian in Cervia AFB

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New Gate Guardian in Cervia AFB

Post by coldwater » Fri Aug 10, 2018 2:48 pm

Yesterday morning August 9,2018 Cervia now home of the Italian AF 15th Stormo CSAR but before home base ofthe 5th Fighter Wing received a new gate guardian
This F-16ADF MM7269 (79-0432) was in the dump of Trapani and has long since been off due to a "crack" in the air intake. The staff of Cervia has completely disassembled it on the Sicilian base, loaded without an engine on a truck of the AM and brought to Cervia where he reassembled it by reconstructing some missing parts that had been dismantled to be reused then on the F-16 still operational at the 37th Stormo.
The MM7268 has been applied to this model to recall the specimen that operated from Cervia, during the meeting of the 5th Wing on June 20, 2015

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Re: New Gate Guardian in Cervia AFB

Post by SpilsbyPete » Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:18 pm

Coldwater.

Great Photo and Info.

Pete

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Re: New Gate Guardian in Cervia AFB

Post by paddyboy » Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:17 pm

Hi Claudio :P

A great pair there :thumbs:

Thanks for posting :thumb:

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