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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:RF-8G Crusader
    Last Military Serial:145607 USN
    Construction Number:284
    Last Civil Registration:N114NR
    Compressed ID:Vought RF-8G sn 145607 USN cn 284 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-1P.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145607.

    1962

    Redesignated as RF-8A.

    Converted to a RF-8G.

    1986


    Photographer: Ray Hanson
    Notes: NAF Washigton

    16 October 1989

    To Department of The Navy, Los Angeles, CA with new c/r N114NR.

    To Edwards AFB, Palmdale, CA.
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    10 February 1993

    Civil registration, N114NR, cancelled.

    September 1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Air Force Flight Test Museum, Edwards AFB, CA

    March 2009

    Placed on display with Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, CA.
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    17 November 2012


    Photographer: Paulo @badesso
    Notes: Castle air museum

    27 November 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Castle Air Museum, Atwater, California.

    27 November 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Castle Air Museum, Atwater, California.

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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