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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:RF-8G Crusader
    Last Military Serial:146898 USN
    Construction Number:728
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Fort Worth Meacham Airport / Meacham Field, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-1P.

    26 February 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 146898.
    Accepted on this date.

    4 March 1960

    Transferred to Composite Photographic Squadron Sixty-Three (VCP-63), NAS Miramar, CA.

    4 March 1961

    Transferred to Light Photographic Squadron 63 (VFP-63), NAS Miramar, CA.
    Unit redesignated.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as RF-8A.

    24 April 1966

    Markings Applied: PP-901

    25 September 1966

    Transferred to Fighter Photo Reconnaissance Squadron 62 (VFP-62), NAS Cecil Field, FL.

    28 June 1968

    Transferred to VFP-63.

    27 June 1969

    Transferred to Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment, NAS Olathe, KS.

    18 June 1970

    Transferred to Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment, NAS Dallas, TX.

    Circa 1973

    Converted to a RF-8G.

    5 January 1974

    Transferred to Light Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 306 (VFP-306), NAF Washington, DC.

    9 December 1975

    Transferred to VFP-63.

    15 June 1976

    Transferred to VFP-306.

    By 1984

    Markings Applied: 601, ND

    9 November 1984

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By 1990

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    13 November 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    November 1993

    To USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
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    9 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Battleship Alabama Memorial

    29 August 2005

    Damaged.
    Damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

    February 2009

    To Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Fort Worth Meacham Airport/Meacham Field, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    3 April 2010


    Photographer: Bill Spidle
    Notes: Sitting at KFTW awaiting restoration to begin

    14 January 2012


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, TX.

    23 July 2015


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Airport, TX

    19 August 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, TX.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
    Bill Spidle
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