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    Airframe Family: Douglas A2D Skyshark
    Latest Model:XA2D-1 Skyshark
    Last Military Serial:125485 USN
    Compressed ID:Douglas XA2D-1 sn 125485 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Jim Slatterly Collection, Gillespie Field, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a XA2D-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 125485.

    By 1959

    To Air Museum/Ed Maloney, Claremont, CA.
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    To Planes of Fame Air Museum/Ed Maloney, Ontario Airport, Ontario, CA.
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    30 June 1970


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: Air Museum. Ontario, CA.

    November 1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    14 July 1987


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    27 December 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    To Pacific Fighters, Fanning Field/Idaho Falls Regional Airport, Idaho Falls, ID.
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    To Jim Slatterly Collection, Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
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    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in Static Park at the 2013 Wings over Gillespie Airshow in San Diego, California

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow in San Diego, California

    7 July 2014


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
    Notes: Douglas XA2D-1 Skyshark 125485 San Diego Air Show (Wings Over Gillespie)

    7 July 2014


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
    Notes: Douglas XA2D-1 Skyshark 125485 San Diego Air Show (Wings Over Gillespie)

    26 March 2023


    Photographer: Chris Wood
    Notes: Seen at the San Diego Air and Space Museum Annex, Gillespie Field.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Frank Dieterich
    Mike Henniger
    Noah Rechtin
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