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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4C Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:147715 USN
    Construction Number:12479
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4C sn 147715 USN cn 12479...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2N.

    1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147715.

    1960

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 93 (VA-93), NAS Alameda, CA.
    Operated with markings: NG

    From 1961 to January 1967

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 125 (V-125), NAS Miramar, CA.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as A-4C.

    1967

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 112 (VA-112), NS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NH

    From 1967 to 1968

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 125 (V-125), NAS Miramar, CA.

    1968

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 873 (VA-873), NAS Alameda, CA.

    From 1968 to 1969

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 125 (V-125), NAS Miramar, CA.

    From 1969 to 1973

    Transferred to Fleet Composite Squadron 7 (VC-7), NAS Miramar, CA.
    Operated with markings: UH-03

    13 July 1973

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By October 1975

    Transferred to Memphis NATTC, TN.

    By 2006

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By 2008

    Loaned to Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, TX.
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    29 March 2009


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: At Forth Worth

    23 July 2015


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Airport, TX.

    19 August 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, TX.

    26 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Fort Worth - Meacham Field, TX, USA
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