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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-3/A3D Skywarrior / B-66 Destroyer
    Latest Model:EKA-3B Skywarrior
    Last Military Serial:142251 USN
    Construction Number:11577
    Compressed ID:Douglas EKA-3B sn 142251 USN cn 115...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A3D-2.

    3 February 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142251.

    10 March 1958

    Transferred to VAH-6, North Island.

    24 June 1958

    Transferred to VAH-2, Whidbey Island.

    23 October 1958

    Transferred to Det E. VAH-2, abd BH Richard.

    9 November 1958

    Transferred to Fasron 117, Barbers Point.

    25 November 1958

    Transferred to Fasron 116, Alameda.

    8 January 1959

    Transferred to VAH-2, Whidbey Island.

    9 January 1959

    Transferred to VAH-4, Whidbey Island.

    24 August 1959

    Transferred to VAH-6, Whidbey Island.

    3 February 1960

    Transferred to VAH-4, Whidbey Island.

    1 May 1960

    Transferred to Det F. VAH-4, USS Oriskany.

    1 October 1960

    Transferred to Det C. VAH-4, USS Hancock.

    17 March 1961

    Transferred to VAH-4, Whidbey Island.

    30 January 1962

    Transferred to Det L. VAH-4, USS Hancock.

    22 August 1962

    Transferred to VAH-4, Whidbey Island.

    1962

    Redesignated as A-3B.

    7 June 1963

    Transferred to Det L. VAH-4, USS Hancock.

    17 December 1963

    Transferred to VAH-4, Whidbey Island.

    19 October 1964

    Transferred to Det L. VAH-4, USS Hancock.

    27 May 1965

    Transferred to VAH-4, Whidbey Island.

    14 June 1965

    Transferred to MASDC, Tucson.

    5 May 1966

    Transferred to FR Alameda.

    11 July 1966

    Transferred to VAH-123, Whidbey Ilsand.

    25 August 1967

    Converted to a KA-3B.

    29 March 1969

    To VAQ-133, USS Constellation.

    31 March 1969

    Converted to an EKA-3B.

    7 August 1969

    Transferred to VAQ-130, Alameda.

    1 October 1969

    Transferred to VAQ-130 Det 42, USS Roosevelt.

    Transferred to Det 2. VAQ-130, USS Midway.

    22 May 1973

    Transferred to VAQ-130, Alameda.

    9 August 1973

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2A0073.

    1 April 1982

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    2005

    To USS Midway Museum-Restoration Facility, North Island NAS, San Diego, CA.
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    26 May 2006

    To USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA.
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    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    21 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA, USA.
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