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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:AD-4NA Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:127888 ALA
    Construction Number:7903
    Last Civil Registration:N92034
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Constructed as an AD-4N by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    December 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 127888.

    December 1952

    Transferred to Fleet Air Service Squadron 691 (FASRON-691), NAS Columbus, OH.

    1953

    Converted to an AD-4NA by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    1953

    Transferred to FASRON-10, Moffett Field, CA.

    1953

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 125 (VA-125), NAS Miramar, CA.

    1954

    Transferred to Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, NAS Glenview, IL.

    1955

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    1957

    Transferred to Advanced Training Unit 301 (ATU-301), NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
    Operated with markings: 3T-xxx

    November 1957

    Assigned to NAS Litchfield Park, AZ for storage.

    Circa February 1961

    Ferry flight.
    NAS Norfolk, VA for collection by French Air Force.

    February 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 127888.

    March 1961

    New construction number, 65, assigned to the airframe.
    Modified upon arrival in France by SFERMA in Bordeaux.

    4 March 1961

    Transferred to Escadron de Chasse 2/20 Ouarsenis.
    Operated with markings: 20-QR
    Callsign F-TFQR.

    June 1963

    Transferred to Escadron de Chasse 3/20 Oranie.
    Operated with markings: 20-0FR
    Callsign F-TGFR.

    21 October 1963

    Assigned to Entrepot de lArmee de lAir 601, ChAoteaudun Air Base for storage.

    6 April 1965

    Transferred to Escadron dAviation dAppui 1/21, Djibouti.
    Operated with markings: 21-LE
    Callsign F-TFLE.

    25 June 1968

    Assigned to Entrepot de lArmee de lAir 601, ChAoteaudun Air Base for storage.

    16 October 1969

    Transferred to Escadron dAviation dAppui 2/21, Ivato, Madagascar.
    Operated with markings: 21-ZA
    Callsign F-TGZA.

    13 September 1971

    Transferred to Entrepot de lArmee de lAir 601, ChAoteaudun Air Base.

    2 April 1972

    Transferred to Escadrille LegAre dAviation dAppui 1/22.

    1 April 1974

    Transferred to Escadron dAviation dAppui 1/22.
    Operated with markings: 22-DE
    Callsign F-UIDE.

    5 November 1975

    Transferred to Entrepot de lArmee de lAir 601, ChAoteaudun Air Base.
    Operated with markings: 70-MJ
    Callsign F-SDMJ.

    7 August 1976

    Withdrawn from use.
    Ground Instructional Airframe.

    December 1976

    To Jack Spanich, Detroit, MI with c/r N92034.

    28 April 1977

    To Preston Parish, Kalamazoo, MI.

    From 26 May 1977 to 28 May 1977

    Ferry flight.
    Chateaudun AB via Dublin to Detroit, MI.

    From 1978 to 1982

    Used for a U.S. Army target towing contract, based out of Kalamazoo, MI.

    August 1982

    To Southern Packing Storage, Greenville, TN.

    10 May 1983

    To Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Portage, MI.

    Based at Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    22 July 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    Markings Applied: B

    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum

    7 April 2017

    Civil registration, N92034, cancelled.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger

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