The iconic jet was unveiled earlier this month, and it's just the latest addition to the museum's collection of military aircraft.
"One of the objectives of the March Field Museum is, and has been for some time, to try to get one of every kind of aircraft that's ever been based here at March into the collection," said Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dick Heil. "So to get one of those airplanes ... is a good signal, and good sign, of the role that March plays in national defense."
But Heil said it wasn't easy.
"I think the most significant challenge was financial, because it took a great deal of money, thousands and thousands of dollars, first, to obtain permission to get one of these aircraft from the boneyard," he said.
The "boneyard," as he called it, is at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.
"The jet was what we call mothballed, so it had a lot of glue, and components removed," said Air Force Lt. Col. Kristopher Holstege. "So to get it here, they had to disassemble the wings, the landing gear, the tail, and so just going out to the desert in Tucson and taking it apart so they could get it on a truck and bring it here, and that was just getting it here. The other half was putting it back together."
Holstege said volunteers spent close to 1,100 hours of their personal time getting the job done.
"Trying to find the right fonts and the paint to match everything based on historical context was a huge challenge for them as well," he said.
Holstege said what makes the F-16 so iconic is that it can do just about everything that the military asks of it.
"It fights very well air-to-air, it can go fast, pull a lot of Gs, turn tight," he said.
Now, the F-16 Fighting Falcon is finally home.
"I think younger visitors to the museum who see the F-16s flying from March almost every day, I think the message is that the Air Force is a good way to go to serve your country and to have an exciting career at the same time."
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