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    Airframe Family: Lockheed S-3 Viking
    Latest Model:S-3B Viking
    Last Military Serial:160604 USN
    Construction Number:394A-1184
    Compressed ID:Lockheed S-3B sn 160604 USN cn 394A...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a S-3A.

    1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160604.

    By 1990

    Transferred to VS-31, USS Dwight D Eisenhower.

    By 1990

    Markings Applied: 702, AG, 02
    USN low-viz c/s.

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    After 10 November 1990

    Converted to a S-3B.

    30 November 2004

    New serial number assigned: 2S0070 AMARC

    20 April 2005

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    2006

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: 710, NF

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    18 October 2017


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: In Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 18. October 2017. On loan from National Museum of Naval Aviation.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Robert Nichols
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