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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8K Crusader
    Last Military Serial:145550 USN
    Construction Number:417
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8K sn 145550 USN cn 417
    Latest Owner or Location:Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145550.

    1962

    Redesignated as F-8C.

    Converted to a F-8K.

    To Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY.
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    15 September 2003


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

    8 August 2011


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Displayed at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York

    30 July 2013


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: Taken from the control tower of the USS Intrepid

    2016


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: US Navy Vought F-8K Crusader 145550 on the deck of USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum, New York, New York, United States.Sony A7 II + Sony FE 16-35mm F41/250 @ f/11 ISO 400 @ 23 mm (effective FL)
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