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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7E Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:160615 USN
    Construction Number:E-539
    Compressed ID:Vought A-7E sn 160615 USN cn E-539
    Latest Owner or Location:Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7E.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160615.

    By September 1987

    Transferred to VA-105, Carrier Air Wing Six (CVW-6), USS Forrestal.
    Operated with markings: 403, AE

    June 2002

    To United Aeronautical Corporation, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: 310

    To Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    8 January 2019

    Restoration started.
    Being restored for static display at Cananaugh Flight Museum, Addison Texas.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Peter Nicholson
    Charles Tullos
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