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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8J Crusader
    Last Military Serial:149150 USN
    Construction Number:947
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8J sn 149150 USN cn 947
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviation Historical Park, NAS Oceana (Main Gate), Virginia Beach, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-2NE.

    Circa 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149150.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as F-8E.

    By 1964

    Transferred to VF-11.
    Operated with markings: AB-209

    By 1967

    Transferred to VF-211.
    Operated with markings: NP-101

    By August 1967

    Markings Applied: MiG Kill
    Aircraft was assigned to CDR. Paul Speer, who scored a MiG kill on 19 May 1967 while flying F-8E BuNo 150348. F-8E BuNo 149150 was not credited with any kills during the war.

    Converted to a F-8J.

    Transferred to VF-191.
    Operated with markings: NM-114

    By 1971

    Transferred to VF-124.

    26 February 1971

    Damaged.
    Crashed near NAS Miramar, CA. Repaired.

    To Aviation Historical Park, NAS Oceana (Main Gate), Virginia Beach, VA.
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    By September 1990

    Markings Applied: 101, AD
    In markings of VF-101.

    22 September 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    23 September 2011


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: At Naval Air Station Oceana (KNTU) in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

    9 October 2015


    Photographer: Dick Logan via Fargo Air Museum
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