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Navy Federal Credit Union

Credit union in the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Navy Federal Credit Union is an American global credit union headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). Navy Federal is the largest natural member credit union in the United States, both in asset size and in membership. As of March 2026, Navy Federal has US $203.5 billion in assets and has 15.5 million members.

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“Navy Federal Credit Union” enters the record as credit union in the United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Navy, Federal and Credit can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Navy, Federal and Credit.
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“Navy Federal Credit Union” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Navy, Federal and Credit provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Navy Federal Credit Union” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.