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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8E(FN) Crusader
    Last Military Serial:40 MN
    Construction Number:EFN40/1257
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8E(FN) sn 40 MN cn EFN40/1...
    Latest Owner or Location:12 Flotte, Landivisiau

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-8E(FN).

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 151771.
    Allocated for production administrative purposes, aircraft did not serve with US forces.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marine Nationale with s/n 40.

    By June 1981

    Transferred to 12 Flotte, Landivisiau.

    26 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT arrivals day

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Aeronavale F-8E(FN) of 12 Flotille on the flight-line at the 1981 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire.

    29 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: departing RAF Greenham Common IAT

    18 June 1983

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     European Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ian Carroll
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