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    Airframe Family: Lockheed S-3 Viking
    Latest Model:S-3A Viking
    Last Military Serial:159768 USN
    Construction Number:MSN 394A-1097
    Compressed ID:Lockheed S-3A sn 159768 USN cn MSN...
    Latest Owner or Location:VS-32

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S-3A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159768.

    By June 1981

    Transferred to VS-30, USS Forrestal.
    Operated with markings: 701, AA

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT

    30 August 1981


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: S-A Viking of VS-30 aboard USS Forrestal taxying at RAF Lossiemouth in Exercise Ocean Venture in August 1981.

    By June 1984

    Transferred to VS-31, USS Dwight D Eisenhower.
    Operated with markings: 704, AG

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 84

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Transferred to VS-32.

    6 December 2000

    Crashed.
    Crashed into Atlantic Ocean 46 miles NE of Florida coast Dec 6, 2000. Crew of 4 ejected safely.
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