Museum of Aviation

On Sunday, the Museum of Aviation in Warner-Robins, Ga., near Robins AFB, plans to open a permanent exhibit featuring an F-16 Fighting Falcon that flew with the Thunderbirds from 1983, when the group began flying F-16s, to 1991, when it shifted to the newer F-16C. After that, it was used as a maintenance trainer at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. (There's also a former Thunderbirds F-16 on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.) The Air Force took delivery of its first operational F-16A in January 1979.