Delivered to the USAF on 25 Aug'80 and assigned to Bitburg air base. First with the tigers of the 53rd, later with the 525th TFS. In Oct'90, the dual seater was moved to Soesterberg air base to fly with the 32nd TFS ('CR'). This was only for a short period and its tailcode swapped back to 'BT' in Feb'91. First with the 22nd TFS, later again with the 525th. Moved to CONUS in Apr'92 to fly with the 43rd FS ('AK'), then to 1st FS ('TY') in late 1993. Then with the 2nd FS ('TY') from Jan'07, then to the 95th FS ('TY') up to 21 Sep'10. It was transferred on that date to NASA as N897NA.

Only with the 32nd for three months or thereabouts.

"HORNET 3" F-15D part of a 4 ship of 43FS Eagles arriving to Nellis during a Red Flag change-over

Didn't log the date, one of the F15Cs went tech. and another was brought over from Bitburg. This aircraft certainly departed a few days after the air show.