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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4F Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:154983 USN
    Construction Number:13799
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4F sn 154983 USN cn 13799...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as an A-4F.

    24 October 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 154983.

    From 1968 to 1973

    Served on aircraft carriers with various squadrons operating in Vietnam.

    1973

    Repaired.
    Reworked in Long Beach, CA, after return from Vietnam service.

    From December 1973 to October 1986

    Transferred to Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels), Pensacola, FL.

    4 May 1974


    Photographer: Dan B McCarthy

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-4F Skyhawk 154983 Blue Angel 5 taxying to the active runway at the 1978 Harlingen Airshow of the Confederate Air Force.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: # 5 is BuNo 154983. I shot this in TMB in the Fall of 1978.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At TMB in the Fall of 1978.

    1986

    Placed in storage.

    1990

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 2

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     A-4 Skyhawk.org by Skyhawk Association
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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