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    Airframe Family: Lockheed S-3 Viking
    Latest Model:S-3B Viking
    Last Military Serial:159743 USN
    Construction Number:394A-1072
    Compressed ID:Lockheed S-3B sn 159743 USN cn 394A...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviation History and Technology Center, Dobbins ARB (formerly Atlanta NAS), Atlanta, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S-3A.

    1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159743.

    Transferred to VS-41.

    Transferred to VS-28.

    Converted to a S-3B.

    Transferred to VS-22.

    2 March 1989

    Made a barricade arrested landing on March 02, 1989 due to a failed nose gear. During that landing, the COTAC (co-pilot/tactical coordinator) ejected.

    By February 1991

    Transferred to VS-24.
    Operated with markings: AJ-701, Eyes of the Storm

    2 February 1991

    BuNo 159743 was 1st S-3 to drop bombs in combat on Iraqi coastal AAA battery on 02/02/1991. One of five bombing missions assigned to VS-24.

    By 2001

    Transferred to VX-20.

    2001

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Retained by Lockheed as a static test airframe.

    To Aviation Wing of the Marietta Museum of History., Dobbins ARB (formerly Atlanta NAS), Atlanta, GA.
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    By 2012

    To Aviation History and Technology Center, Dobbins ARB (formerly Atlanta NAS), Atlanta, GA.
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    7 January 2012


    Photographer: Michael Martin
    Notes: Now standing silent at the Marietta Museum of History - Aviation Wing, located on the Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, GA.

    7 January 2012


    Photographer: Michael Martin
    Notes: Now standing silent at the Marietta Museum of History - Aviation Wing, located on the Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, GA.

    7 January 2012


    Photographer: Michael Martin
    Notes: Now standing silent at the Marietta Museum of History - Aviation Wing, located on the Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, GA.

    15 April 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    15 April 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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