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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:RF-8G Crusader
    Last Military Serial:144617 USN
    Construction Number:168
    Last Civil Registration:N110NR
    Compressed ID:Vought RF-8G sn 144617 USN cn 168 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-1P.

    By 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 144617.

    1959

    Transferred to VMCJ-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144617.

    Transferred to VFP-63 Eyes of the Fleet.

    1962

    Redesignated as RF-8A.

    1970

    Transferred to Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, PA, USA.
    Operated with markings: 617

    Converted to a RF-8G.

    1972

    Transferred to VFP-206 Hawkeyes.

    1987

    Transferred to VFP-306 Peeping Toms.

    From February 1987 to By 1992

    To Department of the Navy/Rockwell Corporation., Los Angeles, CA with new c/r N110NR (RF-8G, 144617).
    Used as a chase plane at Edwards AFB, CA.

    From November 1992 to By 1998

    Loaned to Historical Foundation/Museum, El Toro MCAS (formerly), El Toro, CA.
    USMC Museum.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: NAVY, 144617, TN-21

    4 March 1993

    Civil registration, N110NR, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma.

    1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro Command Museum, CA

    By July 1999

    Loaned to Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, CA.
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    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    31 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, California

    20 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, MCAS Miramar, San Diego, CA, USA.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Marcin Rogowski
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