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    Airframe Family: North American A3J/A-5 Vigilante
    Latest Model:RA-5C Vigilante
    Last Military Serial:149289 USN
    Construction Number:269-24
    Compressed ID:NA RA-5C sn 149289 USN cn 269-24
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-5A-45-NH.

    17 December 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149289.

    January 1963

    Transferred to USN Attack Squadron VAH-1, NAS Sanford, FL.

    1965

    Converted to a RA-5C.
    New construction number, 296-67, assigned to the airframe.

    January 1966

    Transferred to USN Recon Attack Squadron RVAH-6, NAS Sanford, FL.

    Transferred to USN Training Squadron VAH-3, NAS Sanford, FL.

    Transferred to USN Recon Attack Squadron RVAH-12, NAS Sanford, FL.

    16 September 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 4A0005.

    February 1980

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    November 1980

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 315, GJ
    In the markings of Reconnaissance Attack Squadron 3 (RVAH-3), Albany Naval Air Station, Georgia, 1970.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    20 November 1999


    Photographer: leo larsen
    Notes: Pima Air and Space Museum

    16 October 2000


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

    12 June 2010


    Photographer: John Meneely

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Johnny Comstedt
    Mike Henniger
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