A-Model To AMARC

The last operational F-16A Fighting Falcon had its final mission on 15 June, being flown from Tucson ANGB and then placed in indefinite storage at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson. The 162nd Fighter Wing, having flown the A and B models since taking on the F-16 training mission in 1985, retired its one remaining F-16A and two F-16B model aircraft to complete its conversion to the F-16C/D. During the last 22 years, the wing trained 1,640 US and allied pilots in the F-16A/B. The 162nd FW has trained pilots from twenty-two of the twenty-four countries that fly the fighter.