French Crusader front view with insignia of 12th Flotille, seventeen F-8E(FN) underwent a overhaul at the end of the 1980s to stretch their service life another 10 years. They were retired in 1999.
This aircraft has been preserved aboard the USS Hornet Museum. She's wearing the colors of VF-154 "Black Knights", but she never served with them. She was assigned to VMF-122 "Crusaders" in the late '50s.
This DF-8L Crusader wears VF-32 marks,seen here in the NAS Fallon Preservation Park with the snow covered Sierra Nevada Mountain range in the background.