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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8H Crusader
    Last Military Serial:148639 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8H sn 148639 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:VX-4

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-8D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148639.

    1961

    Transferred to VF-111 Sundowners.
    Operated with markings: NH-105

    1966

    Transferred to VF-174 Hellrazors.
    Operated with markings: AD-230

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 148639.

    Transferred to VMF-333 Fighting Shamrocks.
    Operated with markings: DN-14

    1967

    Transferred to VMF (AW)-333 Fighting Shamrocks.

    Converted to a F-8H.

    Circa September 1967


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Flying with VMF(AW)-333 Fighting Shamrocks as DN-14.

    By May 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148639.

    By May 1969

    Transferred to VF-13.
    Operated with markings: AJ-104

    3 May 1969


    Photographer: USN
    Notes: Caption: A U.S. Navy Vought F-8H Crusader (BuNo 148639) of Fighter Squadron 13 (VF-13) Night Cappers intercepting an Egyptian Tupolev Tu-16 bomber (NATO reporting code: Badger) during the NATO exercise Dawn Patrol, 3 May 1969. VF-13 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 7 January to 29 July 1969.

    By 1970

    Transferred to VX-4.

    April 1970

    Crashed.
    Crashed in Pine Canyon near Palmdale, California.
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