[ARC5] F-86 Radios

[D. Platt]

I might be inclined to differ on one point..... The ARN-6, or other ADF 
radio, would not have been removed because the ILS FAF would be 
predicated, many times on a compass locator.  But... heck  obviously 
some '86F's had it removed.  Long before I got to the 95th FIS, the 
squadron 86D's did have the ADF.  In those day, LF/MF airways segments 
were in use and many, many airdromes had NDBs..   In the early 60's, the 
T-33's had the ARN-6 and probably till they went to the boneyard. I 
think I have an old AS-313 loop!  Our F-106's did not have ADFas TACAN 
was used to provide position data.   I'll have to get out my manuals for 
the F-86D, et al and see what the equipment suite looked like.  Its been 
a fairly long time.... don't you see..... Anyway, by the time I got into 
all this, IFF/SIF was deployed and Mode II was active for ADC.  I recall 
the SIF encoder for the APX-25 was the KY-95?  Hmmmm?  In the early 
60's, the 95th's SIF code was Echo-Lima or 0001 0110 on the KY front 
panel in the nose of the T-33's.  The crew chief would open the panel 
and we'd confirm the proper code was set in.  The IFF/SIF for the 
MA-1/ASQ-25 system in our F-106's were pre-set by the MA-1 flight-line 
maint. types.  I have no recall as to what the Hughes nomenclature was 
for the basic IFF.

Jeep - K3HVG

On 12/21/2012 7:31 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> My F-86F pilot's manual, dated 1960, shows the ARC-3 as applicable to F-865F-1 through F-86F-15 aircraft not yet modified by T.O.  Those same type aircraft modified by T.O. had ARC-33.  F-86F-25 and later aircraft had ARC-27.
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> Most aircraft had ARN-6 but some had that removed and replaced by ARN-21 TACAN.
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> Most had APX-6 or 6A IFF but some were modified with APX-25.
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> Of course, all had APG-30 gunsight radar.
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> So if you are talking Gabby in Korea, flying F-86A through early F-86F, it likely would be ARC-3, ARN-6, and APX-6 as well as the APG-30.
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> As a comparison, the F-80A had ARC-3, ARN-6 or ARN-7, and some early ones had BC-1206 instead of the radio compasses.
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