The F-102 on display, serial number 56-1151, was delivered to the USAF on 31 May 1957. It was placed on static display in 1972 at Lackland AFB, Texas, where it remained until it was moved to the Museum of Aviation in 2009.
Convair F-102
Delta Dagger
The F-102 was the world’s first supersonic all-weather jet interceptor and the USAF’s first operational delta-wing aircraft. The F-102 made its initial flight on 24 October 1953 and became operational with the Air Defense Command (ADC) in 1956. At the peak of deployment in the late 1950s, F-102s equipped more than 25 ADC squadrons. Convair built 1,101 F-102s, 975 of which were F-102As.