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    Airframe Family: Vought A-7 Corsair II
    Latest Model:A-7A-2-CV Corsair II
    Last Military Serial:152650 USN
    Construction Number:A-007
    Compressed ID:Vought A-7A-2-CV sn 152650 USN cn A...
    Latest Owner or Location:Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, Belleview, Ocala, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-7A-2-CV.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 152650.

    16 November 1966

    Became the first A-7 to catapult and arrest on an aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. America.

    By May 1967

    To NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Gate Guardian.

    By November 1995

    Markings Applied: 301, USS FORRESTAL, VA-37 BULLS, AE

    5 November 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: taken at NAS Cecil Field Airshow

    After March 2001

    To Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, Belleview, Ocala, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    15 December 2005


    Photographer: Richard Lane

    15 March 2010


    Photographer: Robert Burger

    15 March 2010


    Photographer: Robert Burger
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Burger
    Robert Nichols
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