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    Airframe Family: Grumman A-6 Intruder / EA-6 Prowler
    Latest Model:EA-6B-35-GR Prowler
    Last Military Serial:158542 USMC
    Construction Number:P-20
    Compressed ID:Grumman EA-6B-35-GR sn 158542 USMC...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an EA-6B-35-GR.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158542.

    By September 1975

    To VAQ-130.
    Markings added: AJ-612

    By July 1979

    Transferred to VAQ-136.
    Operated with markings: AC-617, USS SARATOGA

    14 July 1979


    Photographer: Bruce Trombecky
    Notes: Photo taken at NAS Miramar, CA

    28 September 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 5A0132.

    1 April 1998

    To NADEP, NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    Circa 2004

    158542, 156482, and 158547 melded into one aircraft, numbered 158542. These planes had been experimented upon by Grumman and the Navy, and the goal was to create one workable EA-6B out of the three aircraft. Project is known as FrankenProwler. Aircraft rolled out in 2004.

    23 March 2005

    Transferred to VAQ-141.

    By June 2015

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 158542.

    By June 2015

    Transferred to VMAQ-3.
    Operated with markings: MJ-01

    12 June 2015


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At Charlotte Douglas Airport (KCLT)

    By March 2017

    To National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
    View the Location Dossier

    By March 2017

    To Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    By March 2017

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Air History.org
    Jet Photos
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Max Sabin
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