AIR FORCE LEGENDS 211 NORT AMERICAN SABRE DOG - PART THREE - ANG & FOREIGN F-86D-K-L.pdf

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F-86D CUTAWAY
INTRODUCTION:
Air Force Legends Number 211 is
the third volume in the North
American F-86D/K/L Sabre Dog
series and covers Air National Guard
and foreign usage of the F-86D/KiLs.
Volume two, Air Force Legends
Number 207, covered United States
Air Force F-86D/L operators. Volume
one chronicaled the aircraft's design,
structures and testing.
Duncan Curtis has taken on the
task of documenting the Air Force's
operational history of the F-86D/L
in
volume two and the Air National
Guard and foreign histories in volume
three
.
He previously authored Naval
Fighters Number 58, North American
QF-86 Sabre Drones, and F-86 Sabre
from Crowood Press. Mr. Curtis spe-
cializes in the North American Sabre
and maintains an F-86 website at f-
86.tripod.com
Author's Acknowledgements
The assistance of the following
is
greatly appreciated:
Charlie Arnet, Sam Ballard, Ken
Benner, Hans Berfelo, Scott
Bloome, Peter Bowers, Gerald J.
Buchko, Jerome P. Burton, John J.
Carter, Fernando Daleccio, Oluf
Eriksen, Don
'Goody'
Goodrich,
Tom Hail, Frederick Hitchcock,
Pete Hutting, John Irwin, Marty
Isham, Maj E. B. J0rgensen,
Michael P. Jungers, Craig Kaston,
Dean Krueger, John Lewis, Otto
Loorents, David
R.
McLaren, Dave
Menard, Chuck Metz, National
Archives, Stephane Nicolaou, Bud
Norris, Masato Ota, Bill Piper,
Jared Potvin, Ron Regan, Jim
Roquemore, Fred Roos, Dick
Schneider, Larry Smalley, Bob
Stollof. Elliott P. Smith, Willaim
Swisher,
Norm
Taylor,
Joe
Watkins, Nick Williams and Robert
Zbornak.
Finally, to my brother Howard,
whose help through the years has
been immeasurable.
FRONT COVER: Top, 156th FIS F-86L-
60 53-919 in September 1960. The air-
craft served with the squadron trom
April 1959 to March 1961. Pilot's and
crew chief's names were painted
against a map
ot
North Carolina. Ben
Knowles) Bottom, treshly painted
Venezuelan F-86K in flight. (Mick Roth)
BACK COVER: Left side top-to-bot-
tom; 120th FIS F-86L 53-889
at
Peterson AFB in 1960. (H. W. Rued
via
Marty Isham) Pennsylvania ANG F-86L-
60 53-4023. (via Burger) Highly pol-
ished Royal Danish Air Force F-86D
with Sidewinder missile rails was
51-
5945. (Hans Kotoed via Jack
Friell)
French Air Force F-86K 55-4827
ot
EC.2113 with short-span wings, circa
1958. (Guido Buhlmann) Final color
scheme
tor
Italian F-86Ks was worn
by
23° Gruppo machines when they
trans-
terred to 5° Stormo in 1973. (via
Mick
Roth) 12 squadron Royal Thai
Air
Force F-86L-60 53-866. (via Burger)
Right side top-to-bottom; Calitornia
ANG F-86L 53-558 trom the 194th
FIS.
(via Kaston) Philippine Air Force F-86D
51-8406. (Brian Austria-Tomkins
via
Bert Anido) Norwegian Air Force F-86K
assigned to 339 Skv. (via Larry Davis)
Vugoslavian Air Force F-86D on dis-
play after retirement. (Archives
Nicolaou) Italian Air Force F-86K 55-
4815 trom 23° Gruppo. (Jack Friell)
Luftwaffe F-86K trom Jagdgeschwader
74. (Ginter collection)
©
2003 by Steve Ginter
ISBN
0-942612-90-6
Steve Ginter, 1754 Warfield Cir., Simi
Valiey, California, 93063
All rights reserved. No part of this
publication may be repraduced,
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a
retrieval system, or trans-
mitted in any form by any means elec-
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lisher.
ThiE F-86D/KIL IN ANG AND FOREIGN SERVICE BV DUNCAN CURTIS
Above, 111th FIS F-86D 52-3802 trom
Ellington AFB
,
Houston, TX, in flight in
February 1958. The aircratt's belly is
painted aircraft gray tor corrosion con-
trol. (Texas ANG 111th FIS/147th FW
via Mitchell Hail)
F-86D/L DELIVERIES TO
THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD
As Convair F-102A, and later F-
106A, interceptors became available
to the Air Oefense Command, USAF
F-860s began to filter down to the Air
National Guard (ANG) units, but it
was not until 1957 that sufficient sur-
plus aircraft were available to begin
the process. First unit to receive F-
860s was the 173 rd FIS Nebraska
ANG
,
based at Lincoln Municipal
Airport. The squadron received F-
860s in May 1957, converting fram F-
80C Shooting Stars
.
Also during
1957, the 111 th and the 181 st FIS
Texas ANG squadrons received F-
860s, along with the 125th and the
185th FIS Oklahoma ANG. Ten ANG
squadrons had received F-860s by
May 1958, but by this time F-86Ls
had also become available, and a
number of other Guard squadrons
converted straight onto this aircraft
without receiving any O-models.
The first ANG F-86L unit was the
th FIS Illinois ANG
,
based at
108
O'Hare International Airport. The
squadron gained its first aircraft in
Oecember 1957, having previously
flown the F-84F. National Guard F-
860s were gradually phased out in
1960, the 196th FIS California ANG
flying on with the
"Oog"
until March
1961
,
having received F-86Ls in the
previous month. Flying only F-860s,
the 198th FIS Puerto Rico ANG re-
equipped with the type in February
1959 and flew these until November
1960. Conversely, the 199th FIS
Hawaii ANG operated only F-86Ls,
and gained aircraft specially convert-
ed for the squadron from Oecember
1957. Like their Air Force counter-
parts, the ANG F-86Ls were ultimate-
Iy replaced by the F-102A Oelta
Oagger, and in the 1960/61 period
,
many squadrons finally lost their
Sabres for good. By early 1962, only
six F-86L units remained in ANG ser-
vice: the 124th FIS lowa ANG
,
the
173 rd FIS Nebraska ANG
,
the 181 st
FIS Texas ANG
,
the 190th FIS Idaho
ANG
,
the 194th FIS California ANG
and the 196th FIS California ANG.
The 196th became the last unit to
operate the type, converting to F-
102s in the summer of 1965.
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AIR
NATIONAL GUARD (ANG)
F-86D/L UNITS
197TH FIGHTER
INTERCEPTOR SQUADRON
ARIZONA ANG
The 197th FIS began converting
from F-86As in March 1958 at
Skyharbor Airport, Phoenix. The unit
received F-86Ls mainly from the
329 th FIS at George AFB when the
latter converted to the F-102A. The F-
86Ls in turn began to be replaced by
F-104A Starfighters in April 1960. The
last Sabres left Phoenix in July of that
year, inevitably bound for Davis-
Monthan.
At top, first colors worn by 197th FIS F-86Ls were similar to the earlier F-86A scheme.
"Copperhead"
snake on the fuselage
side was yellow outlined by red. 53-4034 was seen at the Luke AFB Armed Forces Day display in May 1958 shortly after receiv-
ing its first F-86L. (Brian Baker) Above, 53-828 bellied into Phoenix in 1960 and was subsequently scrapped. The
"Copperhead"
design was removed from the fuselage side when the high-viz scheme was applied. Instead, a stylized snake's head was
placed on the tail fin, above which was painted "Copperheads" in yellow. (Brian Baker)
194TH FIGHTER
INTERCEPTOR SQUADRON
CALIFORNIA ANG
Based at Fresno, CA, the 194th
FIS flew F-86A Sabres until these
began to be replaced with F-86Ls in
December 1957. Further deliveries
came from the 78 th FIW at Hamilton
AFB in early 1958, the last F-86As
leaving in February 1958.
Toward the end of 1964, remain-
ing F-86Ls were ferried in groups of
four out to Davis-Monthan for stor-
age
;
they were replaced by F-102A
Delta Daggers.
However, when the last four air-
craft came to be flown out of Fresno
in December 1964, aircraft 53-642
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