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Can anyone tell if F-16D 87-0378 uses heavy landing gear or light gear?

I know its a wide mouth GE block 30 but I cant tell which MLG it uses.

Sorry but I can never tell the differences.

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Lightweight.

You can always tell lightweight because the landing lights are on them.

Heavyweight has the landing light on the nose gear door.

HTH

not correct , most users with the light LG have moved them to the nose wheel door.

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Can you tell what type of gear they had on looking at the wheel hubs? Just a thought considering the pictured jet has the slightly older style thin tyres and hubs. I am open to suggestions.

Yes, the hubs are the typical current style for almost every user of the F-16 with the light weight LG.

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You can always tell lightweight because the landing lights are on them.

Heavyweight has the landing light on the nose gear door.

You can't go by the light location. THE MLU upgrade also moved the lights without changing the landing gear on F-16AM/BM

The lights were moved to the nose gear because the addition of pods on STA 5L & 5R blocked light from the old location. It didn't have anything to do with LWG or HWG.

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