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    Airframe Family: North American A3J/A-5 Vigilante
    Latest Model:RA-5C Vigilante
    Last Military Serial:149297 USN
    Construction Number:269-32
    Compressed ID:NA RA-5C sn 149297 USN cn 269-32
    Latest Owner or Location:New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology - Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center, Socorro, New Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-5A.

    February 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149297.

    1963

    To VAH-3.

    1963

    Transferred to VAH-1.

    1964

    Transferred to RVAH-3.

    February 1966

    Converted to a RA-5C.

    From 1966 to 1968

    Transferred to RVAH-6.
    Operated with markings: NE-701

    1968

    Transferred to RVAH-1.

    1968

    Transferred to RVAH-5.
    Operated with markings: NK-125

    1969

    Transferred to RVAH-7.

    From 1970 to 1972

    Transferred to RVAH-6, NAS Sanford, FL.
    Operated with markings: AG-602

    Circa 1971


    Photographer: USN via Fargo Air Museum Archives

    23 April 1972

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 4A0022.

    To New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology-Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center, Socorro, NM.
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