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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7E-13-CV Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:158842 USN
    Construction Number:E-398
    Compressed ID:Vought A-7E-13-CV sn 158842 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Classics Museum, Aurora Municipal Airport, Sugar Grove, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7E-13-CV by Vought at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158842.

    1974

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 174 (VA-174), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AD-401

    By April 1984

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 46 (VA-46), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AB-312

    By October 1986

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 174 (VA-174), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AD-415

    From 1988 to 1989

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 37 (VA-37), NAS Oceana, VA.

    Circa 1990

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 72 (VA-72), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AC-412

    From Circa December 1990 to Circa March 1991

    Deployed aboard USS John F. Kennedy for combat in Operation Desert Storm.

    By May 1991

    Markings Applied: AC-402

    By 1994

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Command.

    1995

    To Air Classics Museum, Dupage Airport, West Chicago, IL.

    24 June 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed not long after arrival at DuPage Airport, West Chicago.

    1998

    To Air Classics Museum, Aurora Municipal Airport, Sugar Grove, IL.
    View the Location Dossier

    30 September 2000


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: On Air Classics ramp at Aurora, IL airport.

    26 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At new west side location at Aurora Municipal Airport

    26 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At new west side location at Aurora, IL airport
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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