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    Airframe Family: North American A3J/A-5 Vigilante
    Latest Model:RA-5C Vigilante
    Last Military Serial:156621 USN
    Construction Number:316-14
    Compressed ID:NA RA-5C sn 156621 USN cn 316-14
    Latest Owner or Location:Empire State Aerosciences Museum, Schenectady County Airport, Schenectady, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a RA-5C.

    December 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 156621.

    1970

    To RVAH-11.

    1971

    Transferred to NATC.

    1972

    Transferred to RVAH-6.
    Operated with markings: AJ-602

    From 1972 to 1973

    Transferred to RVAH-5.
    Operated with markings: NE-614

    1974

    Transferred to RVAH-5.
    Operated with markings: NG-6xx

    1974

    Transferred to RVAH-9, NAS Key West, FL.
    Operated with markings: NG-604

    By April 1975

    Transferred to RVAH-3.
    Operated with markings: NE-602

    28 April 1975


    Photographer: R.R. Leader
    Notes: RVAH-3

    From 1976 to 1977

    Transferred to RVAH-9.
    Operated with markings: AJ-602

    Markings Applied: 602, GM

    1977

    Transferred to RVAH-9.
    Operated with markings: GM-602

    1977

    Transferred to RVAH-3.

    21 November 1978

    Withdrawn from use.

    By 1990

    To Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 1990

    Markings Applied: 303, GJ
    In the markings of RVAH-3, NAS Sanford, GA.

    25 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    15 September 2003


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum

    By August 2011

    To Empire State Aerosciences Museum, Schenectady County Airport, Schenectady, NY.
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    12 August 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Empire State Aeroscience Museum in Schenectady, New York.

    March 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: Empire State Aerosciences Museum.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Max Sabin
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