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    Airframe Family: Grumman A-6 Intruder / EA-6 Prowler
    Latest Model:A-6E Intruder
    Last Military Serial:155648 USN
    Construction Number:I-374
    Compressed ID:Grumman A-6E sn 155648 USN cn I-374...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviation History and Technology Center, Dobbins ARB (formerly Atlanta NAS), Atlanta, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-6A.

    November 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 155648.

    June 1969

    Converted to an A-6C.
    Converted to A-6C night interdiction aircraft.

    1977

    Converted to an A-6E.

    From By 1980 to 1981

    Transferred to VA-165.
    Operated with markings: NG-504

    From 1982 to After 1984

    Transferred to VA-145.
    Operated with markings: NE-500

    After 1984

    Re-winged with composite wings.

    After 1984

    Transferred to VMA (AW)-121.

    1984

    Markings Applied: VA-145, NE-510

    1988

    Transferred to VMA (AW)-121, USS Ranger.
    , damaged in fuel pit fire at NAS Fallon, NV. Left in NAS Fallon in non-flying status.

    1989

    Transferred to VMA (AW)-242.
    Transferred to 242 in non-flying status, awaiting depot repair team to replace windscreen and right intake.

    November 1990

    Repaired.
    Repaired and returned to flight status. Vertical stab badly corroded. One time flight authorized to fly it to Whidby Island to VA-52 where it was put back into depot repair status to repair vertical stab. Transferred by Pac ATO 0498-9U via ComNavAirPac msg DTG 130617Z Nov 90.

    Circa November 1990


    Photographer: Mike Rentner
    Notes: A-6E TRAM BuNo 155648 at NAS Fallon in Nov 1990 taxiing for its first flight after a fuel pit fire in 1988.

    From Unknown to 1994

    Transferred to VA-205, NAS Atlanta, GA.
    Operated with markings: AF-501

    1994

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    After 1994

    Loaned to Aviation Wing of the Marietta Museum of History., Dobbins ARB (formerly Atlanta NAS), Atlanta, GA.
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    After 1994

    To Aviation History and Technology Center, Dobbins ARB (formerly Atlanta NAS), Atlanta, GA.
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    7 January 2012


    Photographer: Michael Martin
    Notes: Now standing silent at the Marietta Museum of History - Aviation Wing, located on the Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, GA.

    15 April 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    15 April 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Mike Rentner
    Max Sabin
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