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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8E Crusader
    Last Military Serial:149134 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8E sn 149134 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum - Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-2NE.

    Circa 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149134.

    June 1962

    Redesignated as F-8E.

    By May 1965

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 174 (VF-174), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AD-205

    By November 1966

    Transferred to Marine All Weather Fighter Squadron 232 [VMF (AW)-232], MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI.

    December 1966

    Base of operations changed.
    Deployed to Da Nang AB, South Vietnam.

    15 July 1967

    Damaged.
    Damaged beyond repair in a VC attack on Da Nang AB.

    To Tillamook Air Museum, Tilamook, OR.
    Cockpit section only.

    By November 1988

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
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    Markings Applied: 101

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Some sources say this cockpit has been loaned to USS Midway Museum but this cannot be true since USS Midways unit is there the same time this one is at NNAM. The item at USS Midway is a cockpit trainer and for some reason has been Mis-Identified as the same BuNo as this cockpit section.
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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
    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 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Picciani Aircraft Photos by Ron Picciani
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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