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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4B Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:142833 USN
    Construction Number:11895
    Latest Owner or Location:Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2.

    Circa 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 142833.

    1958

    To Marine Attack Squadron 331 (VMA-331).

    1959

    Transferred to Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 24 (H and MS-24).

    From 1959 to 1961

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 331 (VMA-331).

    From 1961 to 1964

    Transferred to SOES Quantico, VA.

    Circa July 1962

    Redesignated as A-4B.

    1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142833.

    From 1965 to 1968

    Transferred to VA-95, USS Intrepid (CV-11).
    Operated with markings: AK-512

    1968

    Transferred to NARTU New York, NY.
    Operated with markings: 7R-1

    From 1968 to 1970

    Transferred to NARTU Twin Cities, MN.
    Operated with markings: 7E-23

    1970

    Transferred to NAF Detroit, MI.

    2 September 1970

    Withdrawn from use.
    WFU at NAS New York, NY.

    To National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By 1990

    To Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY.
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    25 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By August 2011

    Markings Applied: NAVY, AK-512, USS Intrepid
    In markings of VA-66, USS Intrepid that it wore around 1966.

    8 August 2011


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Displayed at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York

    December 2012


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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