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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4E Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:151050 USN
    Construction Number:13220
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4E sn 151050 USN cn 13220...
    Latest Owner or Location:Airport, Albany, Oregon

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-4E.
    Ordered as A4D-5 but redesignated during production

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 151050.

    By 1964

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 211 (VMA-211), MCAS Yuma, AZ.

    1965

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    From 1965 to 1966

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 121 (VMA-121), MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.

    1966

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 211 (VMA-211), MCAS Yuma, AZ.

    From 1967 to 1968

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 121 (VMA-121), MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.
    Operated with markings: VK-11
    Deployed at Chu Lai Air Base, South Vietnam.

    From 1968 to 1969

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.
    Deployed at Chu Lai Air Base, South Vietnam.

    From 1969 to 1972

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 311 (VMA-311), MCAS Yuma, AZ.
    Operated with markings: WL-2
    Deployed at Chu Lai Air Base, South Vietnam.

    1970

    Markings Applied: WL-1

    From 1972 to 1975

    Transferred to Marine Attack Training Squadron 102 (VMAT-102), MCAS Yuma, AZ.

    From 1975 to 1987

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 124 (VMA-124), NAS Memphis, TN.
    Operated with markings: QP-7

    17 May 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the open house at Chicago OHare Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve ramp.

    By 1987

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 151050.

    From 1987 to 1994

    Transferred to Navy Fighter Squadron 45 (VF-45), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AD-614
    Adversary squadron.

    8 March 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 3A0741.

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
    The airframe survived here intact but is dismantled.
    View the Location Dossier

    To Airport, Albany, OR.
    Survives here as a restoration project.
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