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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:RF-8G Crusader
    Last Military Serial:145608 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought RF-8G sn 145608 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Pacific Coast Air Museum, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-1P.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145608.

    1962

    Redesignated as RF-8A.

    Transferred to VFP-62.
    Operated with markings: AF, 914

    Transferred to VFP-63.
    Operated with markings: AH, 603

    Converted to a RF-8G.

    1969

    Transferred to VFP-63.
    Operated with markings: PP, 991

    Transferred to VFP-63.
    Operated with markings: PP, 604

    1973

    Transferred to VFP-63.
    Operated with markings: NF, 604

    1978

    Transferred to VFP-63.
    Operated with markings: PP, 641

    13 April 1982

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2F0422.

    31 July 2002

    To Pacific Coast Air Museum, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.
    Only the nose section survives here.
    View the Location Dossier

    27 October 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo at Pacific Coast Aviation Museum, Santa Rosa

    By 20 July 2013

    Markings Applied: 604

    20 July 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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