RA-5C VigilanteRA 5C Vigilante airplane model. The RA 5C Vigilante first flew on June 30, 1962, and was capable of all weather, long range, carrier or land based, multisensory, reconnaissance missions involving high altitude supersonic, or very low altitude, high speed penetrations. Its inertial navigation system provided the precise position location information demanded. The Vigilante pilot and the reconnaissance attack navigator (RAN) sat in tandem under