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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:XAD-1 Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:09103 USN
    Construction Number:1931
    Compressed ID:Douglas XAD-1 sn 09103 USN cn 1931
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a XAD-1 by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 09103.

    Redesignated as XAD-1.

    By 1965

    Dismantled in a junkyard at Fairless Hills, PA.

    Circa August 1972


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver

    By 1975

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    Reassembled.
    A set of outer wings from an A-1J/AD-7 were used in the reassembly.

    1982


    Photographer: Michael Jones

    Circa 1991


    Photographer: Jayson Shenk

    2002


    Photographer: Randy Haskin

    2002


    Photographer: Randy Haskin

    4 May 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett

    10 December 2011


    Photographer: Paul Cooper

    10 December 2011


    Photographer: Paul Cooper

    10 December 2011


    Photographer: Paul Cooper

    By 2013


    Photographer: Dennis A. Stewart
    Notes: Individual cropped out of lower left of picture.


    Photographer: Phil Branagan
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