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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4C Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:147702 USN
    Construction Number:12466
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4C sn 147702 USN cn 12466...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, Pueblo Memorial Airport, Pueblo, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2N.

    1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147702.

    1960

    To VA-44.

    From 1960 to 1961

    Transferred to VA-46.

    From 1 January 1961 to 1964

    Transferred to VA-44.

    1962

    Redesignated as A-4C.

    From 1964 to 1965

    Transferred to VA-46.

    From 1965 to 1966

    Transferred to VA-44.

    From 1966 to 1967

    Transferred to VA-46.

    1967

    Transferred to VA-12.

    1967

    Transferred to VA-44.

    From 1967 to 1970

    Transferred to VA-83.

    1970

    Transferred to NARTU, Los Alamitos, CA.

    From 1970 to 1971

    Transferred to VA-305, NAS Alameda, CA.
    Operated with markings: ND-512

    2 June 1971

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 3A0339.

    To National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    9 February 1979

    To Pueblo, CO.

    To Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, Pueblo Memorial Airport, Pueblo, CO.
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    22 February 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    26 August 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    26 August 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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