VAH-3 also provided concurrent FRS training support for the A3D-2P (redesignated as RA-3B in 1962) for Heavy Photographic Squadron 61 (VAP-61) based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida and the A3D-2Q (redesignated as EA-3B in 1962) training for Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 2 (VQ-2) based at Naval Station Rota, Spain.

[3] Following VAH-3's redesignation as RVAH-3 in 1964, the squadron was tasked with performing all RA-5C FRS functions for both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets at Naval Air Station Sanford.

Once again, RVAH-3, RECONATKWING ONE and the Fleet RVAH squadrons relocated, this time to Naval Air Station Key West, Florida beginning in January 1974.

Attrition of airframes and the increasing maintenance and flight hour costs of the RA-5C in a constrained post-Vietnam defense budget environment forced the Navy to incrementally retire the RA-5C and sunset the RVAH community beginning in mid-1974.

Although the Navy's light photographic squadron (VFP) community provided interim replacement for RVAH assets utilizing the RF-8G Crusader from 1978 until 1987, the Navy's tactical reconnaissance mission was eventually fully transferred to the fighter (VF) community to be performed by F-14 Tomcat aircraft equipped with the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System.