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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:DF-8F Crusader
    Last Military Serial:144427 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought DF-8F sn 144427 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144427.

    1962

    Redesignated as F-8A.

    November 1963

    Converted to a DF-8F.

    7 December 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2F0185.

    July 1972

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    From National Naval Aviation Museum.
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    By 1980

    Markings Applied: 9, UH

    25 September 1980


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1980 photo at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ - of a LTV (Ling-Temco-Vought) DF-8F Crusader

    November 1987


    Photographer: jm Bryant
    Notes: Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 207, AC
    In the markings of VF-32, USS Saratoga.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    By 9 September 2011

    Markings Applied: 29, NAVY VC-8, 144427, GF
    In the markings of Utility Squadron 8 (VC-8), Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station, PR.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Johnny Comstedt
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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