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    Airframe Family: Douglas F4D/F-6 Skyray / F5D Skylancer
    Latest Model:F-6A Skyray
    Last Military Serial:139177 USN
    Construction Number:11251
    Compressed ID:Douglas F-6A sn 139177 USN cn 11251...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F4D-1.

    7 October 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 139177.

    21 October 1958

    Transferred to Fasron 8, Alameda.

    26 December 1958

    Transferred to VMFAW-115, Formosa.

    1 March 1959

    Transferred to VF-141, Aboard USS Ranger.

    12 July 1959

    Transferred to Fasron 11, Atsugi.

    24 July 1959

    Transferred to VF-213, Aboard Lexington.

    16 December 1959

    Transferred to NAS North Island.

    18 February 1960

    Transferred to VMFAW-314, Atsugi.

    30 September 1960

    Transferred to VMFAW-513, El Toro.

    9 November 1960

    Transferred to VMFAW-542, El Toro.

    1962

    Redesignated as F-6A.

    1 November 1962

    Transferred to VMF-513, El Toro.

    25 June 1963

    Transferred to Storage Facility, Litchfield Park.

    2 April 1965

    Transferred to NATC RDT and E, Pax River.

    Transferred to NATC Test Pilot School, Pax River.

    25 November 1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    To Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
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    18 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    June 1995


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed in Quantico, VA.

    To Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (Annex), Miramar MCAS (North Side), San Diego, CA.
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    By August 2004

    To Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, CA.
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    By 27 February 2009

    Markings Applied: 17, VMF-115, MARINES, VE

    31 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Flying Leatherneck Aviation Musem, Miramar MCAS, San Diego, California
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     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
    Sid Nanson
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