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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:NA-1E Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:132443 USN
    Construction Number:9460
    Compressed ID:Douglas NA-1E sn 132443 USN cn 9460...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler Pounds Field (East Side), Tyler, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AD-5 by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 132443.

    Redesignated as A-1E.

    Converted to a NA-1E.

    From By 1972 to By 1979

    To Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX.
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    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: NA-1E Skyraider, previously with the US Naval Air Test Centre at Patuxent River, Maryland, on display with the then Confederate Air Force at their Harlingen base

    From By 1982 to By 1988

    To Military Marine Academy, Harlingen, TX.

    1987


    Photographer: Derek Olson
    Notes: Taken at the Marine Military Academy, Harlingen Texas, June 1987

    1987


    Photographer: Derek Olson

    Circa June 1989


    Photographer: Malcolm Stephens

    By 1993

    To National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
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    From By 1994 to By 2005

    Loaned to Texas Air Museum-Rio Hondo Chapter, Rio Hondo Airport/Texas Air Museum Airport, Harlingen, TX.
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    By May 2007

    Loaned to Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler Pounds Field (East Side), Tyler, TX.
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    May 2007

    Markings Applied: 37543, AE-408
    Spotted parked on the ramp at Tyler, TX.

    Restoration started.

    December 2007


    Photographer: Jay Curtiss

    10 December 2008


    Photographer: Derek Olson
    Notes: Taken at the Tyler HAAM Museum restoration hangar. Thanks to John Mustard for letting me interrupt his lunch to snap this photo. Keep up the great work!

    2008


    Photographer: Derek Olson

    Circa October 2009

    Restoration completed.

    18 June 2010


    Photographer: Jay Curtiss
    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 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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