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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:A-1H Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:34600 SVNAF
    Construction Number:9829
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AD-6 by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 134600.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as A-1H.

    April 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South Vietnam Air Force with s/n 34600.
    Aircraft was part of Project Farm Gate to replace VNAF T-28s.Delivered to Sacramento Air Logistics center in USN configuration, cocooned and shipped by boat to NAS Oakland where it was loaded on USNS Core (CVE-13), arriving in Saigon 1965-06-17.

    June 1965

    Transferred to 514th Fighter Squadron/23rd Tactical Wing/3rd Air Division, Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam.
    Operated with markings: Q on tail, later changed to E
    Part of project MAPOF-302.

    Transferred to 520th Fighter Squadron/74th Tactical Wing/4th Air Division, Binh Thuy Air base, Vietnam.
    Operated with markings: vQ on tail

    30 December 1974

    Last cited on VNAF inventory on this date.

    1997

    To U. S. Army Center, Military History.
    Aircraft transported from Vietnam to AMARG. How acquisition took place is not yet understood.

    August 1999

    To National Museum, the United States Air Force.
    Aircraft remained at AMARG.

    Circa 2010

    Transported by ground. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By 2011

    Restoration started.

    From NMUSAF: Our restoration specialists located a data plate in the aircraft cockpit, which conclusively identifies the aircraft as BuNo 134600. Previously, we had located panels with Vietnamese writing, repaired combat damage, and replacement components of Soviet manufacture all suggesting the aircraft served in combat in Southeast Asia, and likely continued to fly in the years following. In addition, scrap news print and other natural materials were located in an animal nest in the aircraft interior. This news print contained clear dates which suggest the aircraft remained in Vietnam until at least 1992.

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: In the restoration facility

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    November 2022


    Photographer: Ty Greenless

    7 December 2022


    Photographer: Austin Newman

    19 September 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Adam Estes
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