This sheet offers 5 Delta Darts from 3 units.  Perhaps the most interesting feature of the sheet comes from being able to choose any one of three 106’s from the 87^th FIS when they participated in the Air Force’s 1972 fighter competition from 1972.  There are no national markings provided, so they will have to come from the Hasegawa kit.

The 2^nd FIS flew F-106s for only a short time, from 1971 to 1973.  The 2nd flew from Michigan’s Wurtsmith AFB.  The 106s replaced F-101Bs, which they had operated for 10 years.  The big brother of the 106, the F-102, was operated for two whole years prior to that at Suffolk County AFB.  Here we are offered 58-0783, which was doomed to drone duties, and was shot down by the first AIM-120 test at Tyndall AFB in 1994.

The Sixes from K.I. Sawyer AFB’s 87 FIS ventured out to William Tell ’72 with five aircraft that each had unique markings.  Three of them are provided here.  59-0088 has nose art for “Jack the Gripper,” while 59-0089 features “Lurch IV.”  (There was a “Lurch II” that also went along that year, but is not provided.)  The last example is 59-0094, “Bones Crusher.”  The 87^th operated F-51Ds, F-86Ds, F-102As, and F-101Bs prior to acquiring F-106As in Sept. 1968, and then the unit was disestablished in 1985.  All three of these aircraft are no longer; two crashed in 1972, while 59-0094 also fell to an AMRAAM in 1996.

F-106A 57-2456 flew from long-closed Oxnard AFB, California. In September 1968 the squadron was reactivated at Oxnard AFB with 437th FIS F-106s. The squadron moved to Kingsley Field in November 1969 and to Grand Forks AFB in April 1971. The 460th was deactivated on 15 July 1974.  This particular aircraft was felled by an AIM-7M in 1994 while performing drone duties.

Sources:

http://www.f-106deltadart.com/index1.htm

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