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    Airframe Family: North American A3J/A-5 Vigilante
    Latest Model:RA-5C Vigilante
    Last Military Serial:156624 USN
    Construction Number:316-17
    Compressed ID:NA RA-5C sn 156624 USN cn 316-17
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    January 1970

    Constructed as a RA-5C.

    30 January 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 156624.

    10 February 1970

    Transferred to RVAH-6, NAS Albany, GA.

    From June 1972 to March 1973

    Transferred to USS America.

    March 1973

    Transferred to NAS Key West, FL.

    16 November 1973

    Transferred to RVAH-5, USS Constellation.

    1974

    Transferred to USS Forrestal.

    Circa 1974


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Taken while serving with Reconnaissance Attack Squadron (RVAH) 6.

    1 October 1975

    Transferred to RVAH-9, Key West.

    20 August 1976

    Transferred to RVAH-12, USS Forrestal.

    30 January 1978

    Transferred to RVAH-6, USS Nimitz.

    11 October 1978

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    1978

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    1 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: RA-5C Vigilante of Heavy Attack Reconnaissance Squadron RVAH-6 as seen at the Pensacola Naval Air Museum, Florida in November 1979.

    15 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL of : North American RA-5C Vigilante

    30 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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