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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7E Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:158026 USN
    Construction Number:E342
    Compressed ID:Vought A-7E sn 158026 USN cn E342
    Latest Owner or Location:Heritage In Flight Museum, Logan County Airport, Lincoln, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7E.

    Circa 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158026.

    By March 1974

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 83 (VA-83), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AA-313

    1978

    Markings Applied: AA-301

    1983

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 105 (VA-105), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: NL-403

    By 1985

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 15 (VA-15), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AC-303

    From By 1990 to June 1991

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 46 (VA-46), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AC-304

    By December 1990

    Markings Applied: AC-314

    From Circa December 1990 to Circa May 1991

    Deployed aboard USS John F. Kennedy for combat in Operation Desert Storm.

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Command, NAS Memphis, TN.
    Assigned as ground trainer.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By June 1996

    Loaned to Heritage In Flight Museum, Logan County Airport, Lincoln, IL.
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    14 May 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    By 2 August 2011


    Photographer: Robert Burger


    Photographer: Robert Bryden


    Photographer: Robert Bryden


    Photographer: Robert Bryden
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