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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4A Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:142219 USN
    Construction Number:11473
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4A sn 142219 USN cn 11473...
    Latest Owner or Location:New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-1.

    1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142219.

    From 1957 to 1959

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 153 (VA-153), NAS Moffett Field, CA.

    From 1959 to 1961

    To Attack Squadron 126 (VA-126), NAS Miramar, CA.

    From 14 November 1961 to 1962

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 125 (VA-125), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NJ-650

    From 3 May 1962 to 1963

    Transferred to Naval Air Reserve Training Unit (NARTU), NAS Los Alamitos, CA.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as A-4A.

    From May 1963 to 1966

    Assigned to NAF Litchfield, AZ for storage.

    From 1966 to 1967

    Transferred to NARTU Jacksonville, FL.
    Operated with markings: 6F-15

    From 1967 to 1968

    Transferred to NARTU Los Alamitos, CA.

    30 July 1968

    Transferred to Naval Air Technnical Training Center, NAS Memphis, TN.
    For use as an instructional airframe.

    31 July 1968

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Circa 1980

    Loaned to New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
    Replaced another A-4 destroyed by tornado in 1979.
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    10 October 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the New England Air Museum at Bradley International Airport

    28 March 2019


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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     A-4 Skyhawk Association
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    New England Air Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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