UTRON 5 F8U-1 (F-8A) 143807 landing at NAS Atsugi on 11-6-62. (T. Matsuzaki) Colors were engine gray fuselage, yellow vertical and horizontal tailplanes and wings with a red-orange rudder and wing stripe. Landing gear and interior gear doors and engine Intake were white.
Fleet Utility Squadron Five (VU-5) was established on 16 August 1950 in order to provide utility services to the fleet in and around the islands of Japan. As the squadron and its services expanded, UTRON 5 was required to send detachments to carriers and bases as far from its home base of NAS Atsugi as NAS Cubi Point, Philippines. VU-5's primary mission was to provide targets for both the aerial and surface components of the fleet. Other missions consisted of photo services, adversary missions, airborne control of surface launched missiles, and carrier on-board delivery (COD) services.
VU-5 F-8A 143763 at the Naval Air Rework Facility (NARF), NAS North Island on 6-12-65. The vertical and outboard wings were yellow and the rudder was red. (Jansson)
UTRON 5 received five F-8A Crusaders in 1962 to use as high speed target tugs and adversary aircraft. Some of the F-8As were replaced with four F-8Ds in 1965, with the squadron being redesignated Fleet Composite Squadron Five on 1 July 1965.
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