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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4A Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:137813 USN
    Construction Number:10710
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4A sn 137813 USN cn 10710...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a XA4D-1.

    14 August 1954

    First flight.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 137813.

    1957

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    1960

    Transferred to Naval Aircraft Rework Facility (NARF).

    1960

    Converted to an A4D-1.

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 83 (VA-83), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AJ-301

    September 1962

    Redesignated as A-4A.

    By October 1962

    Transferred to NAF China Lake, CA.
    Operated with markings: CHINA LAKE, 7813

    1 July 1963

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    September 1963

    Assigned to NAF Litchfield, AZ for storage.

    By 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 137813.
    Returned to service.

    By 1967

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    30 June 1967


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy

    21 October 1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By October 1979

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    Markings added: AJ-301
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    1 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-4A Skyhawk of Attack Squadron VA-83 as displayed at Pensacola Naval Museum in November 1979.

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    7 November 2003


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Blue Angels Homecoming, NAS Pensacola FL

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto
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    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    China Lake Alumni
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    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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