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    Airframe Family: Lockheed S-3 Viking
    Latest Model:S-3B Viking
    Last Military Serial:160607 USN
    Construction Number:394A-1187
    Last Civil Registration:N601NA
    Compressed ID:Lockheed S-3B sn 160607 USN cn 394A...
    Latest Owner or Location:San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S-3A.
    Last S-3 built.

    7 August 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160607.

    13 August 1978

    Transferred to Anti-Submarine Squadron 22 (VS-22), NAS Jacksonville, FL.
    Operated with markings: AC-707

    1983

    Transferred to Anti-Submarine Squadron Support Unit (VSSU), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AR-12

    1985

    Transferred to VS-28, NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AE-702

    1988

    Converted to a S-3B.

    1989

    Transferred to VS-27, NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AD

    1991

    Transferred to VS-24, NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AJ-707

    March 1994

    Transferred to VS-41, NAS North Island, CA.
    Operated with markings: NJ

    June 1995

    Transferred to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1), NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    2000

    To Naval Air Warfare Center-Aircraft Division, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Markings added: AD

    2002

    Transferred to VX-20, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: 607

    March 2004

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    13 August 2004

    To NASA John H. Glenn Research Lab, Cleveland, OH with new c/r N601NA.

    Based at NASA, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cleveland, OH.
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    Used primarily for flight communications research, including missions designed to help define communications standards to operate unmanned aircraft systems in U.S. airspace.

    By 2008

    Markings Applied: Glenn Research Center, N601NA, NASA, 601

    26 July 2011


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2011

    17 June 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Ar Rockwell-Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA

    17 June 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Ar Rockwell-Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA

    July 2015

    Withdrawn from use.

    13 July 2021

    To San Diego Air and Space Museum, Gillespie Field Annex, Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
    Ferried to the museum on this date.
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    S-3 Viking
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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