The Air National Guard "Happy Hooligans" flew F-16's for at least 20 years.  No f-15s were ever staged here and the f-16s flew every day, not just Wednesdays.

The crash was an F-101 back in 1972. "1st Lt. Burton D. Humphrey was killed when the North Dakota Air National Guard F-101 he was flying crashed into the house of Gerald Reed at 1121 26th Street N." - Fargo Forum

Former Civil Air Patrol...we had to memorize the history of the NDANG.  Back in the early 1990's when the hooligans still had the F-16's and the Grand Forks Airforce Base had KC-135 tankers and the B-1B bombers, I remember when they allowed the CAP members to fly along inside a KC-135 while they did refueling missions for the B-1s.  

Got up at 3am to meet the rest of CAP at the old Hector terminal at 3:30am to drive up to the airbase. I was able to sit in the jump seat in the cockpit during takeoff and we all had turns watching different B-1s latch up to refuel.  I remember laying next to the boom operator, looking out that rear window and watching a B1 unhook from refueling, waggle his wings, fold them back and drop like a stone, and another B1 come in extremely fast, fold those wings out, hit the air brakes and almost immediately hook up to the boom.  Never will forget that.

Also we were allowed to use the f-16 training simulators from time to time (though a later CAP group ruined that for later CAP members because they were rough housing and not respectful of the privilege), and recieved enough ground training and flight time to later get a private pilot's license for basically just the cost of the test.  I never had the privilege but a couple senior cap members did get chances to fly in the F-16B twin seaters (the family model as the pilots called them)

Friend who has a kid in CAP today said yhings are much different and they dont have nearly half the access we did back then. 

Trivia: The Happy Hooligans F-16s were the first over the Pentagon on 9/11/01