Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB adds an OV-10...

[Warbirdnerd]

Museum of Aviation Receives Vietnam-Era Plane
By ABC Macon News
The Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base is loaded with a wide display of aircraft, and today the museum received one of the most unusual planes to date.

It's a Vietnam-era OV 10 Bronco combat aircraft.

It was shipped in today from another museum in Texas.

The OV 10 was used as a foward air control aircraft in combat areas during the Vietnam War and later in Germany and Korea.

The plane was retired in 1991.

157 OV 10's were used for everything from air control to armed reconnaissance, ground attack, and even transporting patients.

The museum plans to restore the plane to it's Vietnam-era paint scheme and markings

Found it here:
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[RickH]

Sad thing. This airframe, along with the example on display at Hurlburt Field were probably the last operable OV-10s in the USAF inventory. They were being used as ground running examples at the Latin American Tech School at Kelly prior to BRACing. The other aircraft at the school were a C-130, T-37, O-2, UH-1, F-16, and the two OV-10s. WHen the school was closed the OV-10s were still flyable, the one mentioned in the article was sent to Amarillo and the other to Hurlburt.