[quote="One-0-Wonder"]One-O-Wonder:
Hi Martin,
The photo's were taken circa 1987/88 and it was removed about a year later and taken back to the base in Ottawa. It was about a year and a half later when I had heard a rumour that it was at a paintball range east of the city and actually managed to locate it by air around 1993. This all correlates to the time it was SOS with the military. I really have my doubts that this machine went to Tyndall after the paintball range. Why would anyone go to the trouble of transporting such a wrecked example of a Voodoo such a distance when there are so many others in the US in much better condition? Food for thought. I still believe that someone, somewhere has misidentified a serial number which has led to this confusion. Verifying that the example in Tyndall is/was an F model would help this along a little as 024 was definitely an F model.
The second picture I posted is of 047 in Uxbridge as of a month ago, so you can strike that one off of your "to do" list.[/quote]
A friend of mine found the following photo on airliners.net:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Ai ... 1348690/L/showing Voodoo 57-0332 at Tyndall AFB -- in February 1985.
He also pointed out that the aircraft was lacking the IR tracker on the nose (present in Canadian "second batch" aircraft), meaning that the aircraft at Tyndall most likely isn't an ex-Canadian Voodoo.
Based on this information, it would appear that the aircraft at Tyndall was painted as 57-0332, but was not actually 57-0332/101024. Your account of 101024's fate appears to be the correct one.
Regarding the aircraft in Uxbridge, Ontario -- Some further questions:
101047 -- Is only the cockpit left?
101033 -- Is only the fuselage present? Was that photo taken at the same time as the photo of 101047?
My list also identifies the cockpit of 101012 as being at Uxbridge. I'm wondering if the info I have stating that the cockpit of 101012 and the fuselage of 101047 are at Uxbridge is incorrect, and should actually say that the Uxbridge location has the cockpit of 101047 and the fuselage of 101033. Any thoughts?
Martin