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We were driving through Highland Home, AL recently and saw the local "Flying Squadron" High School, complete with an F-16A on display. I assume the airplane came from the 187th FW of the ALANG. Photos at the link below:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMER ... me_Alabama

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Very nice display and a good story about how the name came about.
It has an N-number assigned as aircraft donated to schools usually do. Per Baugher:

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We did not stop to see this Viper, as I figured I'd find photos and info online. Looking closer today, I noticed the name of Brian Wolf on the aircraft. Brian was a Life Support troop in the ALANG and was a couple years behind me at Auburn University. When he was competing for pilot selection, I recall giving him a couple hours of dual aerobatic training in our Aero Club Citabria. He went on to distinction as an F-16 pilot in Iraq and one particular mission for which he was decorated is detailed elsewhere online. Sadly, Brian was killed in a car accident in 2006. Brian was a really good dude, nice, talented, always smiling, and a real pro. I can't say I knew him very well, but we were friends and I was darn proud of how his career had come together and awfully shocked when I learned of his passing. I thought it was pretty cool that they memorialized him on the side of that jet.

Ken

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The mascot of the middle school I went to was the "Nighthawk". I always had the idea of getting a retired F-117 to stick on a pedestal out front.

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I saw it about three years ago and I did a double take and a U-turn to go back and take a look. Pretty neat...

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The high school I attended, Agua Fria Union High in Avondale, Arizona, had a T-33 on display in the ROTC compound. The aircraft was apparently donated by the Air Force and came from Williams AFB but I have no idea what the back story is. The aircraft was on display long after I graduated in 1990 but it seems to be gone now. At least I can't find it any longer on Google Earth images. Anybody know what happend to the airframe?

My high school probably wouldn't allow it for political reasons.

One teacher called me a Nazi because I was more conservative than he was.

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I saw this bird for the first time when I went to Panama City for senior trip I thought it was pretty awesome. My schools mascot was a lion I always thought wow how original...... major sarcasm