Subject: New Fighter Series--Vought F-8 Crusader (14 of 18)

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Date: 19 Sep 94 17:23:53 GMT

>From [email-masked]

As part of the Crusader upgrade program, 61 F-8Bs were remanufactured 
as F-8Ls.  Most of them went to Marine Corps squadrons, although a few 
Navy utility squadrons operated this planes.  The F-8L differed from 
the F-8B in having underwing pylons and a new cockpit lighting system.  

Serials of F-8L: 

145416, 145419/145421, 145423, 145425, 145431, 145441, 145442 
145444/145446, 145449/145451, 145453/145455, 145457/145460, 145462, 
145463, 145466,m 145470/145474, 145476, 145477, 145479, 145481, 
145483, 145486, 145488/145492, 145496, 145497, 145502, 145503, 145509, 
145512, 145514, 145520, 145521, 145525, 145527, 145528, 145531/145534, 
145542, 145543.  

Sources:

    Vought F-8 Crusader, Peter Mersky, Osprey, 1981.

    The Aircraft of the World, William Green and Gerald Pollinger,
    Doubleday, 1965.

    The American Fighter, Enzo Angelucci and Peter Bowers, Orion, 1987.

    United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911, Gordon Swanborough and
    Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.

    Ray Wagner, American Combat Planes, Third Enlarged Edition,
    Doubleday, 1982.

    The World's Fighting Planes, William Green, Doubleday, 1968.

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