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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4L Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:150598 USN
    Construction Number:13009
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4L sn 150598 USN cn 13009...
    Latest Owner or Location:Johnson County Industrial / New Century Air Center Airport, Olathe, Kansas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-4C.
    Ordered as A4D-2N, designation changed while on production line

    1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 150598.

    1962

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 76 (VA-76), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AE-603

    1964

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 34 (VA-34), NAS Cecil Field, FL.

    From 1966 to 1967

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 113 (VA-113), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NG-305
    Deployed aboard USS Enterprise for combat in Vietnam.

    From 1967 to 1969

    Transferred to Anti-Submarine Warfare Fighter Squadron 1 (VSF-1), NAS Alameda, CA.
    Operated with markings: AG-514

    1969

    To Fleet Composite Squadron 7 (VC-7), NAS Miramar, CA.

    December 1969

    Converted to an A-4L.
    Converted for use in the Naval Reserve.

    1970

    Transferred to Naval Air Reserve Training Unit (NARTU), NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    1970

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 203 (VA-203), NAS Cecil Field, FL.

    1970

    Transferred to Flight Test School, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    1970

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 203 (VA-203), NAS Cecil Field, FL.

    From 1971 to 1976

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 142 (VMA-142), NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    From 1976 to 1978

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 204 (VA-204), NAS Memphis, TN.

    4 January 1978

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    Stricken at NAS Memphis.

    25 May 1982


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: I was instructed in Jet engine run up training in this aircraft while in AD school at NATTC Memphis. We took our graduation picture in front of it

    By October 1992

    To Old Olathe Naval Air Museum, Johnson County Industrial/New Century Air Center Airport, Olathe, KS.
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    To Johnson County Industrial/New Century Air Center Airport, Olathe, KS.
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    Markings Applied: WE-413, VMA-214 Black Sheep, 8424
    Marked as A-4M 158424.

    8 April 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 April 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 March 2021


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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