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    Airframe Family: Vought F7U Cutlass
    Latest Model:F7U-3M Cutlass
    Last Military Serial:129655 USN
    Construction Number:139
    Compressed ID:Vought F7U-3M sn 129655 USN cn 139
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a F7U-3M.
    Ordered as F7U-3 but upgraded to F7U-3M while under construction.

    June 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 129655.

    June 1954

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 83 (VF-83), NAS Oceana, VA.

    December 1955

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 212 (VF-212), NAS Moffett Field, CA.

    1956

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 151 (VA-151), NAS Alameda, CA.

    From August 1956 to February 1957

    Base of operations changed.
    Deployed on USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31).

    April 1957

    Transferred to Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, NAS Los Alamitos, CA.

    May 1957

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Circa 1960

    On display at Travel Town Museum at Griffith Park during the 1960s / 1970s.

    24 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 129655/G-201 - F7U-3 Cutlass - ex-US Navy - Griffith Park Travel Town, Los Angeles

    1987


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Travel Town, L.A. California.

    1987


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Travel Town, L.A. California.

    1987


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Travel Town, L.A. California.

    From Circa 1991 to 1993

    Restored.

    1993

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Terry Fletcher
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