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    Airframe Family: Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader
    Latest Model:F-8K Crusader
    Last Military Serial:146939 USN
    Construction Number:648
    Latest Owner or Location:Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F8U-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 146939.

    1962

    Redesignated as F-8C.

    Converted to a F-8K.

    September 1987

    Placed on display with Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC.
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    Markings Applied: 4, 146939, 4
    In markings of VF-154, USS Coral Sea.

    August 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    12 May 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    10 April 2015

    1 May 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at USS Yorktown, Patriots Point, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
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    Aerodata Quantum+
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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