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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:F-1E Fury
    Last Military Serial:139486 USN
    Construction Number:209-106
    Compressed ID:NA F-1E sn 139486 USN cn 209-106
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a FJ-4.

    November 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 139486.

    From Circa November 1956 to 1959

    Transferred to Marine Fighter Squadron 232 (VMF-232) Red Devils, MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI.

    From August 1958 to September 1958

    Deployed to Westpac on the USS Bennington during the Quemoy Matsu Crisis.

    September 1958

    Base of operations changed.
    Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as F-1E.

    Transferred to Naval Air Training Unit, NAS Glynco, GA.
    Operated with markings: 4B-16

    16 December 1964

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    17 December 1964

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By 1989

    Markings Applied: 208, NM
    Marked as Navy Fighter Squadron 125 (VF-125), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    11 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at USNAM Pensacola Fl

    12 May 2001

    Markings Applied: WT, 9486
    Marked as when assigned to VMF-232. Unveiled this date.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
    Robert Nichols
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