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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7E Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:160726 USN
    Construction Number:E-559
    Compressed ID:Vought A-7E sn 160726 USN cn E-559
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7E.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160726.

    By January 1980

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 146 (V-146), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NG-303

    1980

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 93 (VA-93), NS Yokosuka (NAF Atsugi (and) NAF Misawa).
    Operated with markings: NF-302
    VA-93, along with CVW-5 and USS Midway (CVA-41), were part of a program to permanently assign a carrier and air wing to an overseas home port. MidwayaCOs new home port was NS Yokosuka, Japan, and the squadron would normally operate out of NAF Atsugi or NAF Misawa when the carrier was at NS Yokosuka.

    Circa 1982

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 22 (VA-22), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NH-300

    By May 1990

    Transferred to Strike University, Naval Surface Warfare Center, NAS Fallon, NV.
    Operated with markings: 24, STRIKE

    19 May 1990


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed during open house at the Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve base, Chicago OHare International Airport.

    By June 2002

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
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     Glenn Chatfield
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