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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8A Crusader
    Last Military Serial:143703 USN
    Construction Number:69
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8A sn 143703 USN cn 69
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a F8U-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 143703.

    Transferred to VMF-122 Crusaders.

    1962

    Redesignated as F-8A.

    By 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 143703.

    1965

    Transferred to Naval Missile Center, NAS Point Mugu, CA, USA.

    Converted to a DF-8F.

    15 January 1971

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    15 January 1971

    Assigned to Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA, USA for storage.

    After December 1995

    To USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, CA.

    December 1998

    Restored as a F-8A.
    Antennas characteristic for DF-8F variant were removed.

    By December 1998

    Markings Applied: 412, NAVY VF 154, 3703, NL, 12
    BuNo 143703 never served with these markings or in this unit.

    30 December 1998

    Placed on display with USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, CA.
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    By 12 December 2002


    Photographer: Bill Spidle

    By 12 December 2002


    Photographer: Bill Spidle

    10 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    29 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: On board USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, CA, USA.

    29 September 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Alameda, CA, U.S.A.

    19 September 2020


    Photographer: Jim Leslie
    Notes: This aircraft recently went through another restoration and is now again on display aboard the USS Hornet.
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    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Marcin Rogowski
    Bill Spidle
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