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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4Q Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:00662 USN
    Construction Number:12235
    Last Civil Registration:N82079
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4Q sn 00662 USN cn 12235...
    Latest Owner or Location:William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144989.

    Redesignated.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 00662 as a A-4Q.

    Markings Applied: 3-A-309

    1982


    Photographer: Museo de la Aviacion Naval Argentina
    Notes: On the flight deck of aircraft carrier ARA 25 DE MAYO.

    2 September 1998

    To Aircraft Charter Services Llc, Houston, TX with new c/r N82079.

    Based at William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, TX.
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    14 July 2017

    Civil registration, N82079, cancelled.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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