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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7D-8-CV Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:70-0998 USAF
    Construction Number:D.144
    Compressed ID:Vought A-7D-8-CV sn 70-0998 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7D-8-CV by Vought at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    Circa 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 70-0998.

    1990

    Transferred to 198th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Puerto Rico ANG.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan, CA.

    2 July 1990

    Placed on display with Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    26 May 2007


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At McClellan AFB, CA

    11 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    30 September 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at McClellan, CA, U.S.A.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     John Bennett
    Peter Nicholson
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