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F-111F 73-0715 was delivered to the Flight Test Center and OT&E (operational test and evaluation) unit in 1973. In December 1979 73-0715 lost the nose wheel and circled to land. The pilot was told to go around but the tail hook caught the wire slamming the aircraft to the ground. One year later 73-0715 took part in Operation Desert Shield where a KC-135 punched a hole in it. June 1995 the 523FS “Crusaders” deployed eight F-111F’s to RAF Fairford for Exercise “Central Enterprise”. In October 1995 F-111F 73-0715 went to the Bone Yard and scrapped.