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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:EA-1E Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:135178 USN
    Construction Number:10255
    Last Civil Registration:N62466
    Latest Owner or Location:Midwest Wild Relics Refuge Inc, Saint Charles, MO

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as an AD-5W by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    30 June 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135178.

    June 1962

    Redesignated as EA-1E.

    By 1964

    Transferred to Detachment R, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11 (VAW-11), CVS-33 USS Kearsarge.
    Operated with markings: RR-72

    By 1969

    Transferred to Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: 178, NAVY, Pensacola, 35178

    17 June 1971

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    From 18 June 1971 to 1974

    To USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico, VA.

    1974

    To Doug Champlin Collection, Enid, OK with new c/r N62466.

    1975

    To John Downing keeping c/r N62466.

    From 1976 to 1981

    To Don Hendrick, SC keeping c/r N62466.

    15 May 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N62466 (EA-1E, 135178) issued.

    1983

    To Airlift, Inc keeping c/r N62466.

    July 1983

    To Paul Oconnell, Dona, TX keeping c/r N62466.

    From January 1984 to 1989

    To Peter W. Thelen, Fort Lauderdale, FL keeping c/r N62466.

    11 November 1984


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In OPF.

    From 1986 to 1987

    Loaned to Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX, Apr.

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    From 1990 to 2002

    To Patrick F. Taylor/Taylor Energy Co, New Orleans, LA, keeping c/r N62466.
    Markings added: 31, MARINES VMA-332, MR

    27 October 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS New Orleans Air Show

    February 2005

    Based at Eric Downing Private Collection, Creve Coeur Airport, Saint Louis, MO.
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    26 August 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Indianapolis Air Show, Indianapolis IN

    8 February 2007

    To Midwest Wild Relics Refuge Inc, Saint Charles, MO keeping c/r N62466.

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX62466 (EA-1E, 135178) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2015

    To Downing Eric, Saint Charles, MO keeping c/r N62466.

    10 February 2016

    To Midwest Wild Relics Refuge Inc, Saint Charles, MO keeping c/r N62466.


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