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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-3/A3D Skywarrior / B-66 Destroyer
    Latest Model:EA-3A Skywarrior
    Last Military Serial:135418 USN
    Construction Number:10311
    Compressed ID:Douglas EA-3A sn 135418 USN cn 1031...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A3D-1.

    30 July 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135418.
    TOS at Douglas El Segundo, CA.

    3 August 1956

    Transferred to Heavy Attack Squadron 1 (VAH-1), NAS Jacksonville, FL.
    Operated with markings: TB-8

    1957

    Markings Applied: AB-4

    14 April 1958

    Transferred to Heavy Attack Squadron 3 (VAH-3), NAS Jacksonville, FL.
    Deployed aboard USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.

    5 August 1959

    Transferred to Heavy Attack Squadron 123 (VAH-123), NAS Whidbey Island, WA.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as A-3A.

    30 September 1963

    Assigned to NAS Litchfield Park, AZ for storage.

    28 December 1965

    Assigned to MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.

    15 August 1966

    Transferred to Naval Aircraft Rework Facility, NAS Alameda, CA.

    Converted to an EA-3A.

    25 October 1966

    Transferred to Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Pacific Missile Test Center, NAS Point Mugu, CA.

    3 December 1974

    Transferred to Naval Aircraft Rework Facility, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    5 December 1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    Damaged and donated to the Naval Aviation Museum.

    December 1974

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    15 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL of Douglas NA-3A Skywarrior

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed from a moving tour bus!

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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