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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8K Crusader
    Last Military Serial:147030 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8K sn 147030 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-2.

    Circa 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147030.

    Circa 1960

    Transferred to Marine Fighter Squadron 333 (VMF-333), MCAS Beaufort, SC.
    Operated with markings: DN

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as F-8C.

    1968

    Transferred to Navy Fighter Squadron 111 (VF-111), NAS Miramar, CA.
    Operated with markings: AK-101

    Circa 1969

    Remanufactured as a F-8K.

    1969

    Transferred to Fleet Composite Squadron 7 (VC-7), NAS Miramar, CA.
    Operated with markings: UH-36

    By November 1971

    Transferred to Fleet Composite Squadron 10 (VCF-10), Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    Operated with markings: JH-2

    1971


    Photographer: Vern Larson, by permission

    1973


    Photographer: Robert (Buster) Taylor by permission

    1973


    Photographer: Robert (Buster) Taylor by permission

    16 November 1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By April 1981

    To New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
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    11 June 1992


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the New England Air Museum

    July 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At New England Air Museum, CT.

    3 June 2005

    To USS Midway Museum-Restoration Facility, North Island NAS, San Diego, CA.
    Sent to the Midways restoration hangar at NAS North Island, CA, for restoration.
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    By December 2006

    To USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA.
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    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    12 October 2012


    Photographer: Bert Voskuil

    2 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed on the USS Midway on the waterfront at San Diego, California
    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
    Internet Sources
     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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