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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:Skyraider AEW.1
    Last Military Serial:WT983 RN
    Construction Number:7427
    Compressed ID:Douglas Skyraider AEW.1 sn WT983 RN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve collection - Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

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

    24 January 1951

    First flight.

    Circa February 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 124121.

    25 September 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WT983 and operated with these markings: WT121.
    To Fleet Air Arm as Skyraider AEW.1 (last 3 digits of BuNo, incorrect serial number applied in USA as WT121 but retained by RN throughout airframes career) WT121 was assigned to a Canberra B2 which was cancelled. Correct s/n was never painted on airframe during its career.

    25 September 1953

    Redesignated as Skyraider AEW.1.

    22 September 1960

    Placed on display with RNAS Culdrose.

    By 1974

    Markings Applied: 415, CU, WT121
    Incorrectly painted as WT121.

    1974


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1974 photo at Old Warden in the UK

    By January 1980

    Placed on display with Museum der schweizerischen Luftwaffe, Flugplatz Dbendorf, Dubendorf, ??? Switzerland.
    Noted at FAAM on 10 January 1980.
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    18 July 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On display at Public Open Day of the Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve Collection at Cobham Hall, RNAS Yeovilton in the UK
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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