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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8K Crusader
    Last Military Serial:146985 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought F-8K sn 146985 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Air Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 146985.

    1962

    Redesignated as F-8C.

    Converted to a F-8K.

    14 January 1974

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2F0281.

    By January 2001

    To Valiant Air Command Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
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    18 March 2007


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    16 February 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Valiant Air Command Museum in Tittusville, FL.

    2 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Valiant Air Command Museum, Titusville

    2 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Valiant Air Command Museum, Titusville

    To Warbird Air Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
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    14 May 2023


    Photographer: James Bretney
    Notes: At Titusville in the Vietnam Hangar

    14 May 2023


    Photographer: James Bretney
    Notes: Joe Baugher reports: 146985 (MSN 726) 1963-64: VF-84 as AG-203. Upgraded to F-8K. VMF-351 as DN-14 NAS Atlanta, GA to MASDC as 2F281 Jan 14, 1974. Noted Sep 2003 at Valiant Air Command Museum, Titusville, FL.

    14 May 2023


    Photographer: James Bretney
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Thomas Delvoye
    Mike Henniger
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