August 2022, saw the appearance of a new gate guard at Trapani–Birgi Airport, which is a military air base and public airport in Sicily, Italy. The gate guard in question is a General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon with Matricola Militare (military registration) MM7240 (msn M22-5/61-403).
F-16A MM7240 saw an extensive life with quite an interesting history. Built by General Dynamics as 81-0722 in its Forth Worth plant (TX), it was delivered on 12 November 1982 to the United States Air Force. It served with various units, including the Air National Guard.
Most European spotters will remember the Viper as '81-0722/HR', flying from roughly November 1982 to April 1986, with the United States Air Force Europe 50th Tactical Fighter Wing at Hahn Air Force Base in Germany.
After a total refurbishment at Hill AFB (UT), it was delivered in 2004 to the Aeronautica Militare, flying with the 18° Gruppo at Trapani-Birgi. After June 2011, it was put in storage, only to be revealed right now in these colours.
https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/f-16-green-lightning-preserved-trapani
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SkyWallker
What about exactly same one, but yellow - black, instead green - black ?
Is that possible ??
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aspide62
aspide62
Ciao Puoi fare pure questa livrea rossa sempre del 18° Gruppo see the link https://giorgiociarini.it/index.php/portfolio/8-portfolio/138-1000-ore-di-volo-sull-f-16-ferrara-e-deangelis.html
Bugg3rnuts author
Wow, I like that one
12 months ago
Gianco976
I don't know if you are Italian (I think so) but ust to make sure I'll write to you English.
Beautiful repaint, thank you for doing it!!!
If you are interested, in the requests section of the Community, I have made 3 requests for as many Italian F16 liveries, namely the gray version of the 37th Wing (10th and 18th groups), another gray one of the 5th Wing - 23rd group ( veltri) and a special color again of the 23rd group.
If you are interested I will post the links below:
https://it.flightsim.to/request/livery/23691/f16-italian-air-force-37th-wing-10th-and-18th-fighter-group
https://it.flightsim.to/request/livery/23689/f16-italian-air-force-with-livery-of-the-5th-fighter-wing-23rd-group
https://it.flightsim.to/request/livery/22956/f16-scdesign-italian-special-color-5-wing-23-fighter-group