File:RF-8G Crusader of VFP-63 at NAS Midway in 1974.jpg
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A U.S. Navy Vought RF-8G Crusader (BuNo 146865) of Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron VFP-63 Det.3 "Eyes of the Fleet" at Naval Air Station Midway (USA), in 1974. VFP-63 Det.3 had been assigned to Carrier Air Wing 5 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41). Note other aircraft of CVW-9 from USS Constellation (CVA-64) in the background. The Constellation was deployed to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean from 21 June to 23 December 1974. 146865 was on its way back to the continental United States and had departed Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, on 29 April 1974 as the Crusaders of CVW-5 were replaced by U.S. Marine Corps RF-4B Phantom IIs. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7342.035 |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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