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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4C Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:148503 USN
    Construction Number:12696
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4C sn 148503 USN cn 12696...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2N.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148503.

    From 1961 to 1963

    Transferred to VA-43.

    1962

    Redesignated as A-4C.

    From 1963 to 1965

    Transferred to VA-36.

    From 1965 to 1966

    Transferred to VA-15.

    1966

    Transferred to VA-106.
    Operated with markings: AC, 403

    From 1966 to 1967

    Transferred to VA-15.

    From 1968 to 1969

    Transferred to VA-34.

    From 1969 to 1 January 1970

    Transferred to VA-44.

    1970

    Transferred to MARTD Alameda, CA.

    September 1973

    Put into storage at the AMARC bone yard.

    18 September 1973

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 3A0377.

    November 1973

    Transferred to NAS Memphis, TN.
    Assigned here as a ground trainer.

    4 December 1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    Struck off charge at NAS Memphis, TN.

    27 December 2004

    Spotted at NAS Pensacola.

    Placed on display with NAS Pensacola, FL.

    By March 2006

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    10 April 2006

    Loaned to Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    11 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    18 July 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the California Aviation Museum at the former McClellan AFB near Sacramento.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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