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    Airframe Family: Lockheed S-3 Viking
    Latest Model:S-3A Viking
    Last Military Serial:160593 USN
    Construction Number:394A-1173
    Compressed ID:Lockheed S-3A sn 160593 USN cn 394A...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S-3A.

    23 September 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160593.

    7 October 1977

    Transferred to Anti-Submarine Squadron 29 (VS-29), NAS North Island, CA.
    Operated with markings: NK-703

    1978

    Markings Applied: NE-703

    1981

    Markings Applied: NL-03

    1985

    Transferred to VS-38, NAS North Island, CA.
    Operated with markings: NE-711

    1989

    Markings Applied: NE-704

    1990

    Transferred to VS-41, NAS North Island, CA.
    Operated with markings: NJ-743

    30 October 1991

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2S0017.

    12 March 1999

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By 2009

    Scrapped.

    March 2009

    Based at National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: 711
    Only the cockpit survives here.
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    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     S-3 Viking
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Lawson
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