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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:AD-3 Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:122811 USN
    Construction Number:6933
    Latest Owner or Location:Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AD-3 by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 122811.

    From Circa 1950 to Circa 1953

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

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Center, NAS Memphis, TN.

    By 1978

    To EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    8 August 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the EAA Museum

    8 June 2003

    To Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
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