Aircraft On Display
Of the 42 converted aircraft, 36 were sent to AMARC or scrapped, 3 were destroyed in crashes and 4 are on display, as one of the AMARC aircraft is now sitting on AMARC's display row:
- 66-0016 is on display at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. It was the first EF-111 to fly a combat mission and was unofficially credited with the Mirage F1 kill.
- 66-0047 is currently being restored at Silver Springs Municipal Airport in Silver Springs, Nevada.
- 66-0049 was the first prototype EF-111 and is on display at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho.
- 66-0057 is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
- 66-0039 is located on the display row of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG) facility at Davis-Monthan AFB, which is part of the facility tour. According to a June 2008 309 AMARG inventory website, 32 other EF-111As remain at the facility.
Read more about this topic: General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven
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