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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:RF-8G Crusader
    Last Military Serial:145609 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought RF-8G sn 145609 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-1P.

    1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145609.

    1959

    Transferred to Marine Composite Reconnaissance Squadron 3 (VMCJ-3), MCAS El Toro, CA.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as RF-8A.

    1966

    Transferred to Fighter Photo Reconnaissance Squadron 62 (VFP-62), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AJ-906

    1966

    Converted to a RF-8G.

    1972

    Transferred to Marine Photo Reconnaissance Squadron 4 (VMJ-4), NAS Olathe, KS.
    Operated with markings: MJ-41

    January 1974

    Assigned to 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC), Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.

    January 1976

    Transferred to Light Photographic Squadron 63 (VFP-63), NAS Miramar, CA.
    Operated with markings: NL-610

    27 April 1982

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2F0425.

    April 1984

    Salvaged.

    3 December 2002

    Removed from storage at MASDC for eventual display at the Naval Air Museum, Barbers Point, HI. Apparently the transfer never took place.

    Based at Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By September 2007

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    7 September 2007


    Photographer: Bill Spidle

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    From 2013 to 2016

    Restored.
    Marked as when with VFP-62.
    This dossier is waiting for review by an editor.This airframe dossier was started by a contributor.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
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     Crouze.com
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Bill Spidle
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