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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:AD-4 Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:123827 USN
    Construction Number:7133
    Last Civil Registration:N23827
    Latest Owner or Location:Military Aviation Museum and Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia Beach, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    1949

    Constructed as an AD-4 by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    Circa October 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 123827.

    1950

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 55 (VA-55), NAS San Diego, CA.
    Operated with markings: S-507

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 175 (VA-175), NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 15 (VA-15),.

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 75 (VA-75), NAS Oceana, VA.

    1956

    Transferred to Marine Attack Training Squadron 20 (VMAT-20), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    From 1959 to 1966

    To Gate guard, Dekalb-Peachtree Airport, GA.

    From 1966 to 1969

    To David M. Forrest, Avondale Estates, GA with new c/r N54162.

    From 1978 to 1987

    To David M. Forrest, Avondale Estates, GA with new c/r N23827.

    Restored.

    5 December 1978

    First post-restoration Flight.

    December 1978

    Markings Applied: 168B, Navy, Atlanta, B

    28 January 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX23827 (AD-4, 123827) issued.

    From February 1987 to 1988

    To James McMillan/goag Inc, Breckenridge, TX keeping c/r N23827.

    2 August 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    2 August 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    2 August 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    From 11 April 1989 to 2000

    To Wiley C. Sanders Jr, Troy, AL keeping c/r N23827.

    27 September 2000

    To Gerald Yagen/Training Services Inc/Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N23827.

    Based at Military Aviation Museum and Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia Beach, VA.
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    2005

    Markings Applied: B-501, 123827

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: Taken at the 2011 Hamilton Air Show, Canada

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: Taken at the 2011 Hamilton Air Show, Canada

    18 June 2011

    19 June 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Buffalo, NY. The Skyraider has just landed behind my airplane and was heading for an airshow with an SB2C Helldiver and F-4 Wildcat.

    8 April 2015

    18 May 2019


    Photographer: Campbell McGhee
    Notes: Taken at the Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, VA

    18 May 2019


    Photographer: Campbell McGhee

    6 July 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, VA.


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    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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    Mike Henniger

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