Markings - stencils on Viper's nose?
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Wow, is this how rumours start?kiwi wrote:Still strange that it says US Air Force F-16A under the canopy. Is this an old picture? Do we have any F-16AM's that used to be USAF F-16As? In that case it could be that this is a picture from just after we got it, cause I can't imagine they wouldn't spraypaint over that
. Dutch F-16's have been flying around with this text only for the past 28 years. If you never noticed; pay more attention! 
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Redskin301
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hi Guys,
happen to have this Singaporean one on file. All F-16's have this serial on the left side of the cockpit as I was told. This one does not say US Air Force, but guess it's just coincidence. Dont forget the KLU examples are much older.
And why paint it over if some hardcore spotters only find out after 28 years it has these writings on the cockpit
Best regards,
Hans.
happen to have this Singaporean one on file. All F-16's have this serial on the left side of the cockpit as I was told. This one does not say US Air Force, but guess it's just coincidence. Dont forget the KLU examples are much older.
And why paint it over if some hardcore spotters only find out after 28 years it has these writings on the cockpit
Best regards,
Hans.
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J-008's USAF serial is on the datablock (88-0008). All Dutch F-16's (and all US military aircraft sold to a foreign country under a Foreign Military Sales -FMS- contract for that matter) have an allocated US military (in this case USAF) serial. Most carry this serial somewhere on the fuselage. The Dutch F-16's display the Dutch serial on the canopy rail and the USAF-serial on the data-block; other users have their national serial on the data-block and the USAF-serial on the canopy-rail, or carry one of them (or both) on the tail.kiwi wrote:Still strange that it says US Air Force F-16A under the canopy. Is this an old picture? Do we have any F-16AM's that used to be USAF F-16As? In that case it could be that this is a picture from just after we got it, cause I can't imagine they wouldn't spraypaint over that
And NO, we don't have F-16AM's that used to be USAF F-16's... in the sense that the Dutch F-16's were built by Fokker and delivered straight to the RNethAF. They got their USAF serial for administrative purposes only. And, of course, the Dutch serial is no more, no less than the "last 3" of the USAF-serial, prefixed by "J-"
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Finally a real clarification instead of just: It's always been there pay more attention etc. Thank you!frank kramer wrote:J-008's USAF serial is on the datablock (88-0008). All Dutch F-16's (and all US military aircraft sold to a foreign country under a Foreign Military Sales -FMS- contract for that matter) have an allocated US military (in this case USAF) serial. Most carry this serial somewhere on the fuselage. The Dutch F-16's display the Dutch serial on the canopy rail and the USAF-serial on the data-block; other users have their national serial on the data-block and the USAF-serial on the canopy-rail, or carry one of them (or both) on the tail.kiwi wrote:Still strange that it says US Air Force F-16A under the canopy. Is this an old picture? Do we have any F-16AM's that used to be USAF F-16As? In that case it could be that this is a picture from just after we got it, cause I can't imagine they wouldn't spraypaint over that
And NO, we don't have F-16AM's that used to be USAF F-16's... in the sense that the Dutch F-16's were built by Fokker and delivered straight to the RNethAF. They got their USAF serial for administrative purposes only. And, of course, the Dutch serial is no more, no less than the "last 3" of the USAF-serial, prefixed by "J-"
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