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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-3/A3D Skywarrior / B-66 Destroyer
    Latest Model:NTA-3B Skywarrior
    Last Military Serial:144867 USN
    Construction Number:12113
    Last Civil Registration:N877RS
    Compressed ID:Douglas NTA-3B sn 144867 USN cn 121...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A3D-2T.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144867.

    Redesignated as TA-3B.

    By September 1980

    Transferred to Pacific Missile Test Center, NAS Point Mugu, CA.
    Operated with markings: 77

    Converted to a NTA-3B.

    To unknown owner with c/r N14867.

    To unknown owner with c/r N577HA {2}.

    31 August 1990

    To United States Government, Van Nuys, CA with new c/r N877RS.

    Operated by Raytheon, Van Nuys Airport (East Side), Los Angeles, CA.
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    26 March 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX877RS (NTA3B, 144867) issued.

    5 March 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX877RS (NTA3B, 144867) issued.

    28 June 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX877RS (NTA3B, 144867) issued.

    2012

    To Pacific Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
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    2 October 2012


    Photographer: D.R. de Pruis

    22 June 2017

    Civil registration, N877RS, cancelled.

    To Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
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    23 January 2023


    Photographer: Hayman Tam
    Notes: After restoration to original nose configuration.
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